> > The thing that makes we wonder is naming it a systems language when it > is garbage collected. When I think of a systems language I think of > drivers and kernels or something fairly tightly coupled in with them, > and in my mind having a garbage collector messing around in drivers > seems sketchy. > They currently have a mark and sweep garbage collector, but replacing it is a high priority. They think that with some recent research that has been done at IBM they can create a garbage collector that, on multicore systems will have close to zero latency.
Maybe that is just me misinterpreting that term. Anyway I still think > it looks cool and I want to play with it. > Their libraries are a bit sparse right now. Since the built-in strings are all UTF-8 I'm working on libraries to convert to/from other Unicode encodings. I hope to try submitting the first one (UTF-32BE) next week. If that goes well I will work on converters for UTF-32LE, UTF-32, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, and UTF-16.
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