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Re:Rust is mostly safety by pjmlp on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:25AM (#13278158)
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.

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Re:Rust is mostly safety by nickpsecurity on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:52PM (#13278749)
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.
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Re:Rust is mostly safety by pvg on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:03PM (#13278422)
Most languages resemble themselves very strongly.
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Re:Rust is mostly safety by pjmlp on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:53PM (#13278760)
You lost me there, regarding Go vs Limbo.
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Re:Rust is mostly safety by pvg on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:56PM (#13279183)
Dumb joke. "resemble each other" is a more unambiguous way to say what you meant.
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