@awesomeintheory That's not the borrow checker—that's the lifetime system.
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@pcwalton Do you mean that there are two passes in the compiler? Because it seems like neither does anything useful without the other.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@awesomeintheory You could have a lifetime system without the borrow checker. Cyclone and ML Kit did, for example.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@awesomeintheory For totally separate reasons from the lack of borrow check.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@awesomeintheory My point is just that purity/immutability is an option for you in Rust if you prefer that to dealing with the borrow check.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@pcwalton You can do it, sure, but other languages are far better suited to that model of programming than Rust.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@awesomeintheory This is getting too long for Twitter, but I don't think that's true either :) Modern malloc is very fast.
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@pcwalton But sure, Twitter is a bad medium for discussions like this.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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