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> I don’t know if anyone’s written a static linker yet, but it’s an obvious next step.

Essentially just wasm-merge [0].

> However, just like with native code, there will be problems with different languages having different representations of strings, arrays, etc.,

This is the biggest hurtle. Someone needs to provide a WASM interface for backends to implement and frontends to target that provides a minimal stdlib. Until then, it's libc and posix by way of emscripten.

0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/pull/919



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