Comment by pjmlp
3 months ago
Yes, plenty have been done already so since Lisp Machines, Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, Cedar, Oberon, Sing#, Modula-2+, Modula-3, D, Swift,....
It is a matter to have an open mindset.
Eventually system languages with manual memory management will be done history in agentic driven OSes.
"Agentic driven OSes"? Sounds like AI hype babble.
Hype or not, that is what is being pushed
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsof...
https://www.klover.ai/apple-uses-ai-agents-10-ways-to-use-ai...
What does this have to do with system languages with manual memory management going away?
Swift, by design, does not have GC.
Chapter 5,
https://gchandbook.org/contents.html
It would help if all naysayers had their CS skills up to date.
RC is a GC method and the least efficient one.
It's the most predictable and has much less overhead than a moving collector.
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