Saying "I prefer purity to fighting with the borrow checker" doesn't make sense. Pure code is guaranteed to pass the borrow check!
@awesomeintheory You could have a lifetime system without the borrow checker. Cyclone and ML Kit did, for example.
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@pcwalton Sure, but Rust doesn't, and IIRC ML Kit at least could never make it perform well at all (and it took forever to compile). -
@awesomeintheory For totally separate reasons from the lack of borrow check. - 7 more replies
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