> How did we start talking about Java and VMs? Is this some sort of strawman argument?
Is it a strawman if my comment was in response to "managed languages"?
> Strawman again? I wasn't talking about complexity. I said that the more "systems" your programming is, the higher is the cost of memory safety bugs.
For clarity, you spoke about the cost of debugging of memory bugs. And I said, it's universally true that programs are harder to debug the more "systems" they get. The reason is that it typically isn't sufficient to simply trace an individual thread anymore. "Logical tasks" are served over a number of event handlers executed in various (OS) threads.
It's not first and foremost a refutal of what you said. But an observation that I even placed in opposition to my other statement that it's not quite true that you can't use debuggers with kernels. FWIW and so on. I don't get why you are calling "strawman" repeatedly, and don't get the aggressive tone of your comments.
Is it a strawman if my comment was in response to "managed languages"?
> Strawman again? I wasn't talking about complexity. I said that the more "systems" your programming is, the higher is the cost of memory safety bugs.
For clarity, you spoke about the cost of debugging of memory bugs. And I said, it's universally true that programs are harder to debug the more "systems" they get. The reason is that it typically isn't sufficient to simply trace an individual thread anymore. "Logical tasks" are served over a number of event handlers executed in various (OS) threads.
It's not first and foremost a refutal of what you said. But an observation that I even placed in opposition to my other statement that it's not quite true that you can't use debuggers with kernels. FWIW and so on. I don't get why you are calling "strawman" repeatedly, and don't get the aggressive tone of your comments.