Re:Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
by trendnet on Monday August 18, 2014 @10:10AM
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Why do people think that Swift has a managed runtime with garbage collection? It has reference counting, it's compiled into native code. It has a small runtime lib. linked into the executable (but hey, even C executables have it).
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Re:Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
by pjmlp on Monday August 18, 2014 @11:21AM
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The younger generations grew with VM based implementations, never learned the memory safe system programming languages that lost the market to C and C++ and lack compiler design understanding.
As such, any language they see announced as safer than C and C++ must be VM based.