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It will happen. Eventually runtime / io typesafety will happen, just not yet. A good example of how this was solved in the past was Microsofts IUnknown interfac
by SavantIdiot 5y ago
It will happen. Eventually runtime / io typesafety will happen, just not yet. A good example of how this was solved in the past was Microsofts IUnknown interface where the type of a blob is determined after it is downloaded. It basically converts unknown to a type on access, but is just too heavy duty for bandwidth requirements in a runtime/JIT environment.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoIUnknown was the base type for all COM interfaces. What does that have to do with downloads?
- SavantIdiot 5y agoI was referring to memory bandwidth and processing bandwidth, not download bandwidth. Re-reading I can see how that is confusing. It was also the base type for all DirectX interfaces. It effectively provides type info for a binary blob with implicit version information that could be used for extremely robust runtime data-typing. However there's all kinds of overhead associated with it, especially if the interface needs to be parsed constantly.