On 22/03/18 12:28, Meta wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 12:52:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
An article comparing the above languages as per the DoD language
requirements [0].
http://jedbarber.id.au/steelman.html
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelman_language_requirements
"The central failure of the language is the myopic focus on the affine
typing solution to heap allocation and thread safety. The creators do
not seem to realise that other solutions already exist, and that dynamic
memory allocation is not the only safety issue a programmer has to cope
with."
Interesting that the author's criticism of Rust lines up very closely
with Andrei's.
Spoken on the forum for a language that has still not managed to make
sure that a destructor actually gets called every time an object is
destroyed.....
Shachar
