What about #vlang ? https://vlang.io/

On Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:40:30 UTC+2, nsf wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:48:53 -0700 (PDT) 
> ⚛ <0xe2.0...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: 
>
> > > You can't have Go syntax without a garbage collector. 
> > > 
> > 
> > I wouldn't be so sure about it. 
> >   
>
> Let me rephrase myself. When someone says "I want Go without garbage 
> collection" it means a person wants a feel he has with Go, but at the 
> same time without garbage collection. At least that's my case. I wanted 
> exactly that. And you can't have that. You can build a language similar 
> to Go without GC, but you won't get a feel of Go. At least, I couldn't 
> do it. And maybe it's kind of obvious, but when there is a need to 
> manage memory, that factor alone creates a different programmer mindset. 
> And in my opinion what Go does so well for a programmer is establishing 
> its own mindset that gives a very nice and smooth development process. 
> What we call "a feel of Go". 
>
> That's actually very same mistake that leads to talks like "where is my 
> feature X? I want feature X in your language". And the problem here is 
> that a language is not just a collection of features, it's a 
> composition of features. You can't just stick something in and make it 
> better (see C++) and you can't throw something out. Every feature 
> addition/removal affects the language as a whole, mutating it to a 
> different state. And in my opinion GC is a critical feature that allows 
> you to have memory safety and (well, let's put it that way) memory 
> safety is one of the major features in Go. 
>
> So.. think about it. "I want Go with templates" and "I want Go without 
> garbage collection" are very similar things. Both hide the desire of 
> improving/changing something without realization that this will affect 
> other areas dramatically. 
>
> And to make a summary: I tried that, I did that mistake thinking you 
> can build something out of Go just by taking parts you like and mixing 
> them in some weird way. I was stupid (to make it clear, I'm not 
> implying that anyone is). Hopefully what I said makes some sense. 
>
>
> Offtopic: 
>
> Btw. Thanks for your work on GC precision, I really hope those patches 
> will get into Go. One of the areas where I want to apply Go is desktop 
> applications. And for these you need a precise GC, because some desktop 
> apps have uptime measured in days or weeks (especially on geek's linux 
> machines) and you clearly don't want to get mozilla's firefox fame for 
> eating all the memory. 
>

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