DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language [LWN.net]

DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 2, 2022 11:20 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language by felixfix
Parent article: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

> What does it have that C doesn't?

Predictability, most likely. I'm 99% sure it's reaction to the “disaster of UB” of modern world.

Except they don't realize why that disaster happened and it would either stay on the fringe of IT, mostly ignored or the history would repeat itself.

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DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 2, 2022 19:55 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (1 responses)

> Predictability, most likely.
No. It has manual memory management and no mechanism to prevent use-after-free, so there's going to be UB.

DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 4, 2022 13:26 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Of course there would be UB! And there would be compilers which would “exploit it”. Then history would repeat itself.

That's, of course, in the very unlikely case of it becoming popular enough for that to happen. More likely outcome: this whole thing would die off after a couple more articles published on LWN over the next couple of years.