[Info-vax] Safer programming languages (and walking :-) ), was: Re: 8-bit characters

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-16, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It would seem to me that bare metal coding isn't a compiler thing,
> it's a library thing.  Create the necessary libraries for your bare
> metal and have at  it.
>

For one simple example, can you turn off garbage collection in a
language when running in bare metal mode ? (Go is a GC language)

How much of the language do you lose if you can do that ?

Go is also reported not to support low-level features such as
pointer arithmetric.

There's also the fact that at the very lowest levels, you need to
be able to write code that does not need a runtime because there
isn't an operating system under that code to support that runtime.
It wasn't clear to me if you can actually do that with Go.

Simon.

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