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What kind of low level stuff can you do in rust/zig that you can't in V? V works just fine for low level stuff, we have a full os/kernel written in V, which ca
by amedvednikov 3y ago
What kind of low level stuff can you do in rust/zig that you can't in V?
V works just fine for low level stuff, we have a full os/kernel written in V, which can already run g++ and doom.
- kaba0 3y agoMicrosoft has a whole OS written in C#, lisp machines were also a thing, so nothing new. GC is not a problem for OSs. But there are very few applications that do mandate a non-GCd language, like writing performant runtimes, deterministic workloads, etc.
- amedvednikov 3y agoSo what kind of low level stuff can you do in rust/zig that you can't in V? You don't have to use GC in V. It has optional manual management/autofree/arena.