The runtime exposes safe and unsafe code models. Safety is guaranteed for safe code, which is the default, while developers must opt-in to using unsafe code. Unsafe code is typically used to interop with the underlying platform, interact with hardware, or to implement manual optimizations for ...
In Python, everything is treated as an object. Therefore, once an object is initiated, a unique object ID is attributed, and the object's type is defined at runtime. When the type is set, it cannot change. However, the object's state can be changed if it is mutable. Python ...
The Kotlin compiler injects code and metadata into the classes it generates to work around the limitations of the JVM and the Android platform. While this workaround effectively allows to bypass said limitations, it also has negative side effects on the security of the generated code: ...
I have no clue how Oracle executes my bytecode, but I trust it implicitly. And if I exclude the Android platform, I am effectively locked-in after I build a project in one of these languages. And I can’t leave out the other famous black boxes I rely on: Windows, OS X, registries...
Traditionally, C++ was the right choice for a non-Windows environment, but that changed onceMicrosoft started encouraging open-source implementationsof .NET. The same C# bytecode can run on virtually any platform, which makes it the language of choice when it comes to simplifying portability. ...