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When it comes to wasm, the Dispatcher for coroutines that is currently available is based on setTimeout in its implementation. I was wondering when a multi-threaded Dispatcher using WebWorkers will be implemented?

web workers don't share memory so that wouldn't fit the same programming model as other platforms

(yes there's SharedArrayBuffer, but the whole point of reference types/GC is to get away from untyped linear memory)

Thank you. I hadn't even considered the GC issue! In that case, I hope we can at least switch to a requestAnimationFrame-based approach like KotlinJS, which would not only address the GC problem but also be a good long-term solution.

long term, threads should exist in wasm and work with GC'able objects

<https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/Post-MVP.md#threads-and-shared-references|https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/Post-MVP.md#threads-and-shared-references>