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by janosch9001
2849 days ago
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Hi, author here. It is indeed a niche thing. But there are some use cases: * Sandbox for code you don't fully trust (e.g. download the bytecode from a web server) * Mods for small hobby game engines * There are many virtual machines, but not many are so small, with strong typing and no garbage collector * Learn about virtual machines in general, but directly have a C compiler available for the virtual machine * Sandbox for embedded applications, e.g. plug-ins for IoT applications on microcontrollers (bounded CPU time, bounded memory area, restrict access to peripheral devices) * There is also a historical value: learn about the Quake III engine |
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This is incorrect. Wikipedia specifies C’s typing discipline as “static, weak, manifest, nominal”, which isn’t great, but is at least in the right ballpark. “Strong” and “weak” are unhelpfully overloaded words.
http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/08/what-to-know-before...