It only has to be less bad than C or C++ though and it's hard to argue that it makes things worse in any major way.
Sorry, toy is probably the wrong word here. More like "code not intended for deployment and use by general end users".
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It's not a big deal if you use big resources in things like bug-hunting, scientific, etc. OTOH for code running on 1B+ devices...
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but there is a large amount of Java and JS running on phones...
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And that's why I say it's awful.
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ok, automatic memory management has definitively won
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Yes. Language-integrated refcounting (with ability to optimize out provably-unneeded ref/deref) is excellent.
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It's much nicer when it can be non-atomic by default and still safe though.
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No reason that higher level languages couldn't copy that from Rust while not being low-level / verbose.
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i.e. opt-in to a reference type being shareable between threads. Can permit sending ownership either way.
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