On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Ben Kloosterman <[email protected]>wrote:

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> I'm not forking Rust. They've made too many design choices and
> implementation choices that I think won't work.****
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> And yes, if I did, I would actively remove Rust's current pointer
> mechanisms. At present, they are poorly designed and framed, which is
> causing so much confusion that even the Rust team is making bad decisions
> grounded in that confusion.****
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> Agree on some of their design decisions, but it is an almost v1 system
> that is a huge + .. It is easier to change some of these mechanism than
> build a whole new eco system
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That's not at all clear, given the distance between Rust and the language I
want.


> While I like .NET , I really don’t think you will get much traction from
> existing C and C++ devs with a GC on .NET  and mono is worse ...
>

.NET certainly is not a final or sole target. It's just a handy runtime for
early bringup.
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