Re:The V Programming Language is open source
by sagichmal on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:18PM
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Yes, embedded is enough of a special case that I don’t consider it as part of a general purpose discussion on programming languages.
Re:The V Programming Language is open source
by mises on Saturday June 22, 2019 @07:11PM
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Ericsson predicts 18 billion IoT devices by 2022. Those all need code written for them. Do you still consider embedded programming a "niche"? Maybe it's one specific case, but it's relevant and ought to be "part of the discussion".
https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report/internet-of-thin...
Yeah, state sucks. But sometimes, you need a starting point, and diff from that. And, that's state.
One of the safe ways of handling global vars, is by having only a single non-interruptible function that can mutate global. And you have best make sure your global-mutating function is fast. You don't want to miss IRQs that might fire off but are blocked.