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
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