On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 18:03:12 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 17:51:51 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
This is the last[1] occasion to speak about a programming
language initiatly made in D, as the bootstrap phase is very
near.
I'd like to thank the D compiler developers, that let me work
on DMD even if I borrow another path.
[1] : https://gitlab.com/styx-lang/styx
Interesting project.
A few questions.
I see that you use "var auto name" in order to automatically
infer the type. Would it be possible just using "var name" for
that, similar to other popular languages.
There is currently no information about memory management, is
this something you have an idea how to design right now?
It has a memory management system very comparable to older Delphi
(<= 2007) or current FreePascal. So dynamic arrays are reference
counted and automatically managed when used a local var.
Classes and structures are manually managed but the dtor is
automatically called when the instance is a local.
This system is proven to work as the compiler itself is now
rewritten in styx.
(example, the valgrind report after running the compiler with the
equivalent of D "-unittest" CLI option :
https://gitlab.com/styx-lang/styx/-/jobs/1980055910#L110.
To be honest I already knew it will work before implementing ref
counting. This has been used for something like 30 years by
hundreds and hundreds of programmers.
