On: Beating C with 70 lines of Go

[Gibbon1]

The difference is, you can write perfectly usable programs in C without littering the codebase with malloc() and free().

[pjmlp → Gibbon1]

Just like you can in Go, as proven by TinyGo.

Or in dozen of other GC enabled systems programming languages for that matter.

[Gibbon1 → pjmlp]

Tip: Give up dude.

[pjmlp → Gibbon1]

Exactly my tip to the anti-GC luddites.

The difference being evolution, takes care of sorting that out, like in all anti-technology groups throughout mankind history.

[pjmlp → Gibbon1]

To the extent that my work is open to memory corruption security exploits, with possible high monetary costs, caused by anti-GC luddites.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/11/bad-binder-an...

[Gibbon1 → pjmlp]

Great we can have system software that's as shitty as user facing now.

[pjmlp → Gibbon1]

"The Singularity research codebase and design evolved to become the Midori advanced-development OS project. While never reaching commercial release, at one time Midori powered all of Microsoft’s natural language search service for the West Coast and Asia."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...