On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 19:34:26 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 19:31:55 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
On 8/10/15 12:25 PM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com>" wrote:
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…[insert your language here] has a long way to go… :)
Which is why I think people are attracted towards D. It's very
close to being "there". The large elephant in the room is the
garbage collector. Every way to work around it feels like a
massive, ugly hack.
Yes, it is not a good fit for D. Although, I find the Pony-lang
approach interesting, but that is an actor language so it should
not be compared to D, but to vibe.d.
Pony uses a per heap GC, a cross actor GC, and actor collection
(collecting the whole actor and heap when the actor cannot
receive more messages). Each actor (fiber in D) does not have a
stack, the stack is per thread so I believe you "yield" when the
stack has been unwound, they only use C-ABI when calling C
functions.
But they also have an advanced pointer type system that can
distinguish between at least 6 different reference-aliasing
situations (or was it 12?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvLjy8w1G_U
Anyway, it is refreshing. Maybe D can pick up some ideas from
Pony.
