On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:04:29AM -0700, Graydon Hoare wrote: > On 20/04/2013 4:15 PM, Adam Szkoda wrote: > > >First of all, let me just say that Rust is quite a beauty and I look > >forward to how it will develop. > > Thanks! > > >Discovering that there’s an interactive interpreter (rusti) was a very > >pleasant surprise. Taking this a step further, I would like to ask > >what’s the language designers’ stance on hot code swapping a la Erlang > >or Common Lisp. > > That it's incompatible with the way PLTs currently work on various > operating systems, so out of scope. Sorry. When we were doing our > own runtime linking (yes, really) this was more possible. Now that > we're trying to integrate with the native C toolchains (including > runtime linker), it's not, and won't be.
I see, thank you. — Adam _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
