Comment by zepto
5 years ago
In its current form perhaps this is true. However Chris Lattner and others have expressed the desire to have it be suitable for systems programming.
There is reason to believe they will adapt it.
5 years ago
In its current form perhaps this is true. However Chris Lattner and others have expressed the desire to have it be suitable for systems programming.
There is reason to believe they will adapt it.
Has Chris specifically mentioned OS kernel programming? As the Golang team have pointed out, there's lots of systems programming going on in userspace, which is what they refer to when they call Golang a systems programming language.
That being said, ARC is probably easier to get to work well in-kernel vs. tracing garbage collection. There's a performance cost to all of those reference count updates, but at least the variance is extremely low.