Re:Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
by mzzter on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:55PM
(#16002384)
I guess I’ll try asking this again: How come Red doesn’t have a GC? If Red doesn’t have free, does it just leak memory?
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Re:Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
by 9214 on Monday December 25, 2017 @12:38AM
(#16002848)
First version of GC (and maybe some memory-management natives) will be integrated in 0.6.4 release, meanwhile there's some bag of tricks and conventions (`/into` refinement, creating series with `make ...`, etc) you can use to avoid additional allocations (almost) entirely.
Re:Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
by christophilus on Sunday December 24, 2017 @10:01PM
(#16002401)
Yes. Last I checked, it just leaks memory. It doesn't have GC because it's a new language that is under heavy development. It doesn't have a lot of things that any sane language must have before 1.0. Give it time.