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Re:Orange: A simple systems programming language by gue5t on Friday June 26, 2015 @04:32PM (#9787554)
Is it memory-safe? Is it garbage-collected?

Edit: Looks like it does extern calls to `malloc`, with no matching frees. Supporting proper dynamic resource management is fundamental for a system language, as the whole point of an operating system is to manage resources for user programs.

Re:Orange: A simple systems programming language by rfratto on Friday June 26, 2015 @04:41PM (#9787616)
When a standard library is introduced, Orange will be garbage-collected.