WasmGC – Run GC languages such as Kotlin, Java in Chrome browser

WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) now enabled by default in Chrome - Chrome for Developers.
There are two types of programming languages: garbage-collected programming languages and programming languages that require manual memory management. This article explains how thanks to WebAssembly Garbage Collection, short WasmGC, garbage-collected languages can be ported to WebAssembly.
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