My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[forkit]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 02:54:08 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 02:36:31 UTC, forkit wrote:
>> Each byte in memory has a unique address.
>
> This is not true and has never been true, at least in the x86 
> world.

you're conflating memory addressing in hardware, and memory 
addressing in software. I'm only interested in the software 
abstraction (and even a description of the hardware addressing is 
itself likely to be an abstraction).

The software abstraction is the lowest level I want to go. Which 
is an array of addressable memory. I build on that. I don't need 
to go any lower.

Ultimately, everything in the universe is an abstraction, at some 
level or another.