Impressed

[Era Scarecrow]

On Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 02:40:44 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> Still, unless there's something different about these 
> offerings, Java (the langauge) has no low-level ability 
> whatsoever, no manual memory management and strongly encourages 
> over-use of objects and heap allocation. Even 
> natively-compiled, that doesn't sound like my idea of a good 
> embedded language. But I dunno, I guess maybe if they're using 
> it in the sort of way that game devs use Lua...(Not that I'm a 
> fan of Lua - far too dynamic for my tastes.)

  It does do low-level bit manipulation for built-in types, 
however I think that's it's limit.