On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 08:58:47 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 21:35:43 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 19:56:06 UTC, sighoya wrote:
This uniformization sounds too good to be true. I think most
people think that, but it's simply not true. malloc/free is
incompatible to garbage collection.
This is true and even druntime has a malloc/free option for
the GC. However, its implementation is really bad. Also the
implementation of the current GC has a lot of room for
improvements. It is still not appropriate for many embedded
systems as it requires another layer that steals CPU time and
code memory.
Speaking of embedded,
https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython
https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/08/23/tinygo-on-arduino
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/makecode/resources
http://www.ulisp.com/
https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/principles
https://www.microej.com/product/vee/
Meanwhile kids, the future generation of developers, keeps
adopting the hardware and programming languages listed above,
completly oblivious there is a programming language where all
discussion threads turn into GC vs no-GC no matter what was the
original subject.
There is also https://micropython.org/
It would not be my choice of language for medical but uPython is
used in a small number of embedded medical devices and has been
ported to several flavours of STM32.
This is a space where D could make a difference, although
unfortunately the language has some dark corner cases and
friction that put some people off to the point where they don't
see any benefit moving to D.
