Talk on what a systems programming language needs to replace C

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 26 August 2019 at 14:12:37 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
wrote:
> On Monday, 26 August 2019 at 12:31:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
>>
>> One thing that everyone seems to be missing from this talk, 
>> lost in the usual D vs Rust argumentations, is that the 
>> speaker has a responsability position at Intel, and it also 
>> relates to Intel's adoption of Rust.
>
> The reason I highlighted this talk was because of who/which 
> organization it came from. Josh is also a Kernel hacker if I am 
> not mistaken.
>
> Regarding your argument that Go is a systems language - I guess 
> Google using it doesn't count, but Go is used for writing 
> databases etc. But not sure you could use Go everywhere that C 
> can be used. Go has a built-in scheduler, and GC etc.

Regarding Go as systems language, here is some literature, from 
one of its influences


http://www.projectoberon.com


http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Front

And related hardware,

https://pcper.com/tag/oberonstation/

And a surviving vendor,


https://www.astrobe.com

I can also cite a multitude of other languages.

In fact, D also has a built-in scheduler and GC.

As you might imagine, I belong to the crowd that would rather see 
a better GC (thanks very much for all improvements by the way), 
than betterC or trying to copy Rust, just because it is getting 
all the love by the FAANG.