Comment on Orange: A simple systems programming languageComments−gue5t11yIs it memory-safe? Is it garbage-collected?Edit: Looks like it does extern calls to `malloc`, with no matching frees. Supporting proper dynamic resource management is fundamental for a system language, as the whole point of an operating system is to manage resources for user programs.−rfrattoOP11yWhen a standard library is introduced, Orange will be garbage-collected.
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Is it memory-safe? Is it garbage-collected?
Edit: Looks like it does extern calls to `malloc`, with no matching frees. Supporting proper dynamic resource management is fundamental for a system language, as the whole point of an operating system is to manage resources for user programs.
When a standard library is introduced, Orange will be garbage-collected.