guide/src/reference/weak-references.md
By default wasm-bindgen does use the TC39 weak references proposal if support is detected. At the time of this writing all major browsers do support it.
Without weak references your JS integration may be susceptible to memory leaks in Rust, for example:
.free() on a JS object, leaving the Rust memory
allocated.Closure type) may not be executed
and cleaned up.Closure::{into_js_value,forget} methods which explicitly
do not free the underlying memory.These issues are all solved with the weak references proposal in JS.
FinalizationRegistry will ensure that all memory is cleaned up, regardless of
whether it's explicitly deallocated or not. Note that explicit deallocation
is always a possibility and supported, but if it's not called then memory will
still be automatically deallocated if FinalizationRegistry support is detected.