Rust has you trade solving region typing / borrow checker puzzles for never having to worry about freeing a resource. Latter is a huge win
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Then there's the part where finding correct solutions also means concurrent programs won't have data races. This is the stuff of dreams.
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@bascule "This is the stuff of dreams" without the vapourware promises -
@alfiedotwtf yeah, like... actual data-race independence you would get out of a purely immutable program otherwise
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@bascule so far, I've found it works exactly how my mental model works. Maybe that says more about me than Rust though :-) -
@bmastenbrook the language I wanted to work on after Reia, if you discount the JVM/dynlang parts, looks like Rust:https://github.com/tarcieri/paradox … -
@bmastenbrook I failed to mention anything about linear ownership transfer in the README, but... yeah
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@bascule my experience is this wears off fast - after a bit, it flows super naturally. Rust is a great language.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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