[off-topic] Sony releases PS Vita SDK
SomeDude
lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Fri Apr 20 05:57:26 PDT 2012
On Friday, 20 April 2012 at 06:43:51 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Well, C# can also be real systems programming language, see
> Singularity.
> And native code compilers are also available (Bartok, Mono AOT,
> NGEN).
>
> D names itself a system programming language, but I am yet to
> see any OS
> coded on it. Without system programming examples, it becomes
> just another
> application level language.
>
I once asked on reddit what "system programming language" meant,
and the 3 answers I received were: a language that gives full
access to memory", i.e basically a language with pointers. Not
one mentioned being suitable for programming operating systems.
Yet, if you forget the standard library, disable the GC, and use
a subset of the language (no exceptions for instance), I suppose
it's possible to write low level code with it.
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