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		swannodette on Nov 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Scala.js v0.1 Note that asm.js (and probably PNaCL as well) currently offers very little for languages like Scala that need good GC. Until that's addressed simply targeting JavaScript is going to be best approach for these languages.

jkrems on Nov 30, 2013 [–]

I don't think running a garbage collected languages on asm.js will ever make any sense (since it would mean implementing and shipping your own GC as part of the application source). So, yeah, you're right. Scala (as-is) is not a good language to target any of the "native" targets like asm.js.

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