Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 11:03:37 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 10:54:12 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 09:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> "C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law"
>>>
>>> http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804
>>
>> I think D and the GC are highly appropriate for developing 
>> high performance application software. That's where D really 
>> shines. It's a shame that Qt is such a nightmare to use in 
>> anything that isn't C++. GTK is easy enough to use at least. 
>> What's funny is that both frameworks implement their own 
>> memory management schemes. That points to a need for automatic 
>> memory management.
>
> Why only application software?  The point of that blog post is 
> that whole swathes of system programming should be done with 
> mostly GC, leaving only OS kernels, some real-time apps, and 
> the highly-constrained embedded space to the betterC mode.

Which is actually how Android works.

NDK is quite constrained and its only purpose is for high 
performance 3D graphics (Vulkan), real-time audio, SIMD/NEON and 
integrating existing C and C++ code into Java.

Everything else is done in Java, and on Android Things even user 
space drivers are implemented in Java.

Also where Microsoft is driving UWP into, C++ for kernel, 
graphics and performance critical UWP components, and everything 
else in .NET Native.

Even the UI team does their Fluent UI graphical effect demos in 
C#.

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Paulo