Programming languages without garbage collection send us down a long path of design decisions that lead to slow compile times and fragile runtime performance cliffs.
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I agree. But you are suggesting to have the computer take care of the combinatorial complexity instead. That still doesn't solve the fundamental problem that it's still impossible for a human to comprehend.
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Resulting in programs that are technically correct, but run out of memory. Because the actual problem the user had was not memory management but ownership. Memory management is a symptom.
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Or maybe they don't do it because it's just not that common to want something like that? 99.9% of my code is super boring and doesn't need covariant arrays and what not so the complexity really isn't warranted.
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