Microsoft working on new systems language

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-12-30 12:23, JN wrote:

> I'm kind of an outsider to this discussion, but take a look how
> many games are written using GC-languages, Minecraft is written
> in Java, Terraria in C# and all Unity3D games use Mono underneath
> (usually C#). And these languages don't allow you to use malloc
> even if you wanted to (you can do some of that stuff with NIO
> buffers in java but it's a PITA).

You can use malloc and friends via JNI in Java. The SWT source code is 
full of uses of malloc, although it's a bit more verbose than to use it 
from C or D since it doesn't have pointers.

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/Jacob Carlborg