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JavaScript is being developed with the assumption that wasm will continue to exist. For example, JS is unlikely to get SIMD support because wasm can do SIMD in a cleaner way than JS can. (I am one of the people developing JavaScript.)

Rather, what we're likely to see is work which makes integration between wasm and JS easier - see, for example, the wasm string builtins proposal [1], the proposal for native support for importing wasm from JS [2], or the proposal for fixed-layout JS objects which would allow directly reflecting wasm-GC objects in JS [3].

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/js-string-builtins/blob/main/...

[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/esm-integration/tree/main/pro...

[3] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-structs?tab=readme-ov-file#...



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