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Re:Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019 by kryptiskt on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:15AM (#18843858)
What if they can write their GC in the language itself?

https://github.com/red/red/blob/master/runtime/collector.red...

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Re:Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019 by 9214 on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:26AM (#18844133)
Garbage collector (and the whole runtime library) is written in Red/System, not in Red.
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Re:Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019 by Yoric on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:56AM (#18844008)
What would this change?
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Re:Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019 by vanderZwan on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:21AM (#18844118)
At the very least it would imply that you have full control over the memory from within the language
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