Eaglercraft 1.12 Wasm Gc Now

In 2023–2024, the WebAssembly community finalized a game-changing proposal: WASM GC. This is now a standard feature in modern browsers (Chrome 119+, Firefox 118+, Safari 18+). WASM GC introduces first-class support for:

Instead of emulating a GC on top of linear memory (like a clunky C++ malloc), WASM GC allows the compiled Java bytecode to directly use the browser’s highly optimized, low-pause garbage collector. eaglercraft 1.12 wasm gc

A technical exposition would be incomplete without addressing the legal and security context. Eaglercraft operates in a gray area of software distribution. Instead of emulating a GC on top of

WASM GC = WebAssembly Garbage Collection proposal.
Traditionally, WASM only understood linear memory (bytes, ints, floats).
GC adds native support for managed, garbage-collected objects (structs, arrays, references). WASM only understood linear memory (bytes

Why it matters for Eaglercraft: