Meiklejohnian absolutist. free speech as in free-for-everyone.
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if rust added a GCed mode go would be dead in the water
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right, the more experience the less of a problem the borrow checker becomes. what would be cool is a language that you can productively use without needing a significant amount of experience.
It is a cool language that has a lot of things going for it: no hidden preprocessor macros, not being able to add side effects to the standard library, idioms like "dyn/Box/unwrap/unsafe" that can make bad code immediately stick out in code reviews
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the only difference from other unmanaged languages wrt lifetime of data is that the compiler will refuse incorrect code. whether you solve that error message by adding explicit lifetimes or reference counting is up to the programmer.
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right, that's the really cool thing about rust. i'm comparing it to managed languages, however, and asking whether 'gradually unmanaged rust' is viable
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