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[cynical]

No, I literally said "most popular language to write in". Glue code that ships with Linux obviously doesn't count. I mean it counts once because...

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Developer12, madscientist159 Ty both! That was very helpful. It sounds like POWER is in a good place then, actually. I don't mind recompiling if necessary...

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Lol you dirty people. I wasn't even thinking of that and now... well now it has to be changed or I'm going to laugh every time I see that code.

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Can anyone speak to the experience of using POWER as a desktop? If I wanted to run Ubuntu as an example, I'd need to install the server version and then...

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They have the major stuff like streams and lambdas, which make Java bearable. I'd love to have var, and ofc when I say modern Java is a good language...

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Good point, I always forget the update situation on Android since I used a Nexus/Pixel when I was using that platform....

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The Android SDK supports Java 8 now. I don’t see the point of Kotlin really. Modern Java is nicer to look at, it just needs support for records to get...

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They did that five years ago when they replaced Dalvik with ART. The compilation happens on app installation.



Not in JavaScript....

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You missed my point. You are dealing with heap-allocated reference types instead of primitive, stack-allocated types, right? Which means you must track...

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If you think using a different language would fix the issue then you don’t understand the problem....

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It's the exact opposite. JITs have runtime information that static compilers cannot have, while they also know everything that static compilers do. If...

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Aren't they pushing some new special memory for the same reasons? I recall reading about that somewhere......

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Of course it is not free, but it lets you change heap allocations to stack allocations where C++ cannot even think to do so. You think they would have...

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A copying GC is faster than malloc at allocations, largely because it does compaction. Thus there is no maintenance of a "free list". Free memory...

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Opportunities for doing so in C++ are limited. A static compiler does not have enough information to know for sure that a pointer to an object can't escape...

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No different than VIM then.



Soon you will have no reason to use another text editor, so that's not a problem either.
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Fair point, but it really has come a long way. Using escape analysis to transform heap allocations into stack allocations is amazing. And it can do object...

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Exactly. The other issue is that, if you accept the definition of intuitive that you are using here (that if I learn a regular editor, and that enables...

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On Github or wherever, but I was thinking deployed code....

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I had to look up how to use nano when I first started, because I didn't know what the caret symbol meant. Is that harder than learning that you have to...