@neauoire Does it have to be _garbage collected_ specifically, or just have some kind of automatic memory management?

@neauoire It turns out it'd look like embedding Lua or something similarly small and putting it in charge of any allocations & lifecycle management.

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That's what I did.

@neauoire I wrote a garbage language once so I'm halfway there!

@neauoire No matter how long language designers twist and turn they will always end up with Java. Go is just Java without VM. WASM is just Java without GC (soon with GC at which point the circle is complete and we reinvented the Applet). GC is just a symptom of dynamic memory allocation. I would make a VM that only executes Java bytecode with statically allocated arrays. Avoid cache-misses and guarantee atomic parallelism by removing the GC!? Use dynamic libs and/or some classloader instead.

@neauoire what would a stack-based GC/RC language for uxn be like 🤔

@neauoire I'd just say "lisp" XD

@neauoire If the runtime detects data the program didn’t deallocate itself correctly and needs to garbage collect, it does it, but then also deletes the offending source code that caused the allocation and leaves a passive aggressive note about it in a notes.txt

@neauoire push all the struct addresses into a queue, have a cron job free() them