alt Hacker NewsThere's no dynamic memory allocation with (100%) Spark. That's really limiting. You can to write "unsafe" code, but that has the same problems as Ada.
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potato-peeler • yesterday at 2:10 PM
That is true for parsers like libjs, but again crypto module or even networking, can still be written in spark, which is much more safety critical.
Rochus • yesterday at 2:12 PM
SPARK is not used for the whole system, but for the < 5% parts, which are safety/security-related in a good architecture.
I thought SPARK got dynamic memory allocation when it adopted Rust-style ownership and borrowing in 2014.