Beating C with 70 lines of Go

Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by Gibbon1 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:52AM (#21592436)

The difference is, you can write perfectly usable programs in C without littering the codebase with malloc() and free().

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Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by pjmlp on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:58AM (#21592457)

Just like you can in Go, as proven by TinyGo.

Or in dozen of other GC enabled systems programming languages for that matter.

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Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by Gibbon1 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:26AM (#21592565)

Tip: Give up dude.

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Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by pjmlp on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:05AM (#21593021)

Exactly my tip to the anti-GC luddites.

The difference being evolution, takes care of sorting that out, like in all anti-technology groups throughout mankind history.

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Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by pjmlp on Friday November 22, 2019 @11:34AM (#21607133)

To the extent that my work is open to memory corruption security exploits, with possible high monetary costs, caused by anti-GC luddites.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/11/bad-binder-an...

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Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by Gibbon1 on Friday November 22, 2019 @02:36PM (#21609198)

Great we can have system software that's as shitty as user facing now.

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Re:Beating C with 70 lines of Go by pjmlp on Saturday November 23, 2019 @02:17AM (#21612895)

"The Singularity research codebase and design evolved to become the Midori advanced-development OS project. While never reaching commercial release, at one time Midori powered all of Microsoft’s natural language search service for the West Coast and Asia."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...

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