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WebAssembly Reference Types

Category

WebAssembly

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 96)

Intent stage

Shipped

Summary

Allow WebAssembly modules to hold references to JS/DOM objects, passing them as arguments, storing them in locals and globals, and storing them in WebAssembly.Table objects.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Positive
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=7581

Docs: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/proposals/reference-types/Overview.md

Explainers: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/proposals/reference-types/Overview.md

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