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I was/am working on a project (https://github.com/JMS55/botnet), where users upload scripts compiled to WASM to control entities on a game server, so that they can write custom behavior.
This vacation, I've got around to this clever stupid solution to embed an HTML/Browser polyfill into the WASM module without changing any of its actual native functionality. Make your programs run it on user's machines that don't even know what PyPI/WASI/wasmtime is! Just give them an '''html''' page.
There's a project working on a generic solution for this: https://github.com/extism/extism
https://github.com/hermitcore/rusty-hermit is one such project for a mini VM in Rust.
To be fair, there is a GC proposal and some runtimes might even already be working on it, but as of today we have no WASM runtime that handles garbage collection.