Understanding the Odin programming language

I can NOT demonstrate it in a tiny godbolt because the effects I am talking about don't apply on a micro-scale.

I CAN demonstrate it with actual source code, but you are unwilling to look it up. You are disagreeing without making the tiniest effort. Not being willing to make an effort by itself is fine. But you're being contrarian in the worst and laziest way.

Do you not understand the concept that I can't explain the world to you from the ground up? You say no to everything without trying to understand it. Your "rebuttals" indicate you're not willing to follow me in the slightest and you reject even the most common lore (for example the thing about C++ class features (destructors, methods...) leading to exposure of internals in public headers, leading to every TU including the world). Or you are intentionally trolling me. You are being uncooperative and you're the single worst interaction I've had on this platform. Now please get off my lawn.

"Programming Language Design and Implementation in the Era of Machine Learning"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc3cW0nqAQ0

The two are apples and oranges and it makes no sense to compare them -- the latter is severalfold cheaper. Of course this comes at a price (read/write barriers, complex runtime, etc).

> The context of this subthread is just to explain why someone who has Java experience might be prone to overcorrection when it comes to avoiding heap allocations

That's what I don't really understand: if anything, someone with Java experience should be prone to avoid heap allocation in something like Rust as it is more expensive on almost every other platform. This is what I'm talking about, and apparently I wasn't clear.

First, tone it down a little please, would you? It's not "my project", what is wrong with you?

> ... has plenty of the bugs that destructors and contained memory allocation avoid. Raw heap allocations, raw mem copies etc. https://github.com/EpicGames/raddebugger/issues/735 . Here's a complex memory cleanup race condition that's 'solved' with a sleep function. https://github.com/EpicGames/raddebugger/issues/855

Now you've provided two links and they contain little evidence to back up your claims. Linking issue 735 suggests that you've misunderstood the part about a "Sleep", which evidences either your lack of capacity to grok the context of the issue, or evidences your unhealthy adversarial stance (I strongly suspect the latter).

> You don't give any explanations, they are just claims, do you understand that? Do you know what evidence is? It's the thing you say you can't provide.

You haven't been able to take the most obvious uncontentious claim from me. But if I'm not explaining as you say, what are YOU doing?

Are you seriously too stubborn to accept that exposing a destructor (or any other method) in a header file requires exposing the class's definition (private method declarations including signatures, include internally used headers for internally used data structures, which again have methods, which have dependencies...) in C++? And when any of those not-real-dependencies changes, you have to rebuild everything needlessly? Are you somehow mentally unable to see how long compile times can subtly degrade a project over time?

Because I didn't need any youtuber personality to find that out for myself. And for some humility, the fact that I was able to see that suggests it's not particularly hard to find out.

> Why don't you link something besides a name of a big C project and explain it. The idea that someone making a project in C somehow means other features and tools are terrible isn't even logic. That would mean that one project in a language from the 70s would negate every garbage collected and dynamically typed scripting language.

And also I didn't claim it, you fantasized it and I can't help but ridicule you for having such wild ideas. To make such claims you would actually have a closer look at a project.

> By your own logic the fact that https://github.com/chromium/chromium has 1.7 million commits to your project's 4,385 means that modern C++ is more than 380 times as effective.

How is that by my own logic? But please accept that this is the work of mainly 1-2 persons, and compare _hours_ of build time (35 MLOC) to 3 seconds of build time (300K LOC).

> You think that somehow something simple like automatically running a function you have to run anyway is a problem, it's nonsense.

You are misrepresenting what I've said so badly it's not funny anymore. I've said multiple times that maybe this function shouldn't even exist. And even if the function has to exist, maybe it shouldn't be coupled so hard, at a language level, with the actual state & logic definitions. I did provide reasons why I've perceived the coupling to be an architectural problem.

I would be very open to a discussion when this can or can not be a serious problem and what are possible tradeoffs and points in the design space. It wouldn't make me feel bad and wouldn't take away from my claim that there is actual evidence for the issues being discussed. But with a person like you, that's not possible.

> That's a matter of dependencies and doesn't have anything to do with destructors.

I've explained multiple times why I think it does. If you want a destructor declared in C++, you have to give the full class definition.

> Now we're to the "I don't like how you're saying it" part of the no evidence playbook. This happens when someone can't admit that they don't have any information and they can't believe that people won't accept them repeating claims as evidence.

No, it happens when I can't believe how you haven't managed to stop talking down on me instead of making an effort to be anything other than an annoying adversary. That's all.

> I think it's time to admit to yourself that you have accepted some internet youtuber personalities as a religious belief and that you haven't questioned these beliefs with thoughts that go beyond the claims of the cult.

I think it's time for you to shut up. You are providing zero evidence for your baseless (even counter-factual) accusations towards myself. What you say makes ZERO sense.

I think it's time for you to shut up

you fantasized it

your lack of capacity to grok the context of the issue

Now we're firmly into the insults phase. You can just admit that you don't know about something or that you don't have evidence, or you can ask questions, but resorting to insults instead of just saying "I don't know" or "I haven't considered that" or "I'm fine with what I'm using so I haven't worried about what other people are doing" is unfortunate.

you've misunderstood the part about a "Sleep"

I repeated what was in the comments. This is another example of claims without evidence, you realize that right? You didn't explain it and how I was wrong, you just said "no, nu uh".

3 seconds of build time

Are you talking about build times now? What happened to all the stuff about being terrible for the APIs and so toxic for the whole system that you can't write anything in godbolt?

how you haven't managed to stop talking down on me

Now it's time to play both sides and fling insults but pretend that me asking for evidence is talking down to you.

I've explained multiple times why I think it does. If you want a destructor declared in C++, you have to give the full class definition.

Finally an explanation of some sort. Too bad this isn't true. Do you know that the implementation can be in a compilation unit just like C?

you are providing zero evidence for your baseless (even counter-factual) accusations towards myself. What you say makes ZERO sense.

You believe things without evidence and you have said where they come from. Then when asked for evidence you grasp at anything from insults to completely unrelated things like a single program that you like which demonstrates nothing. Those are the actual facts.