Comment by oivey
Comment by oivey 15 hours ago
I mean, why not just write Rust at that point? Required static typing is fundamentally at odds with the design intent of the language.
Comment by oivey 15 hours ago
I mean, why not just write Rust at that point? Required static typing is fundamentally at odds with the design intent of the language.
> a garbage collected Rust
By the way, wouldn't it be possible to have a garbage-collecting container in Rust? Where all the various objects are owned by the container, and available for as long as they are reachable from a borrowed object.
Isn't garbage collected Rust without a borrow checker just OCaml?
Pretty much, I would say, in fact, I like OCaml better if we put the borrow checker aside.
Thankfully, like many other languages that rather combine models instead of going full speed into affine types, OCaml is getting both.
Besides the effects type system initially introduced to support multicore OCaml, Jane Street is sponsoring the work for explicit stack allocation, unboxed types, modal types.
See their YouTube channel.
Yeah, I have watched a couple of videos and read blog posts from Jane Street. They are helping OCaml a lot!
A lot of people want a garbage collected Rust without all the complexity caused by borrow checking rules. I guess it's because Rust is genuinely a great language even if you ignore that part of it.