Re:Rust is mostly safety
by nickpsecurity on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:13AM
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I thought it was supposed to be Oberon-2 with some Limbo, C, etc touches. That's part of how it becomes my slam dunk against C in anther discussion. ;)
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If you read the Inferno programming guide, you will see how much the languages resemble themselves.
Major differences are that Limbo uses a VM based runtime with dynamic loading and Abstract Data Types.
But your approach is also good, still Oberon had some issues that were eventually improved in Oberon-2 that Go lacks.
On the other hand Oberon-07 is even more bare bones than Go.
Re:Rust is mostly safety
by nickpsecurity on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:52PM
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I only glanced at Limbo. I'll have to take a more detailed look at it. Inferno was definitely interesting. It was even ported to Android to replace Java runtime by people at Sandia.
Most languages resemble themselves very strongly.
You lost me there, regarding Go vs Limbo.