whistler

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   by whistler 10y ago

   I agree that dynamic dispatch is not suitable for a kernel however if you compile Swift on a linux host then there is no ObjC runtime support anyway so its not an issue. However I would still see it as the full Swift language
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   by whistler 10y ago

   It is possible but the Swift stdlib does rely on a minimal set of libc functions including malloc()/free() and the usual str* and mem* functions. Some of the other functionality can be removed eg the math and floating point but even im
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   Show HN: Using Swift for low-level kernel code(github.com)

   4 points by whistler 11y ago|0 comments