There are new techniques wrt to garbage collected languages and hard deadlines (eg, every period has a dedicated amount of time to garbage collection, whether it needs it or not).
So it's possible my airplane might fall out of the sky because there is not enough memory because not enough time was devoted to garbage collection? That doesn't sound like a great solution. Not to say that C is necessarily the ideal solution. The main reason the author hasn't seen competitors to C is because the author didn't look for one. Vala is decent and there are many others, they're just not sufficiently better than C to result in people switching.
jethroalias97|15 years ago