Re:Rust vs. Go
by flukus on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:40PM
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Is it creating an additional complexity cost or simply exposing an existing but often ignored cost?
It seems a bit like pointers, higher level languages will hide these details from you but you still have to know what they are and how they work, in addtion you have to know how the garbage collector works (that's a big complexity cost right there). In the same way that c forces you to be aware of pointers the borrow checker forces you to be aware of ownership.
It seems a bit like pointers, higher level languages will hide these details from you but you still have to know what they are and how they work, in addtion you have to know how the garbage collector works (that's a big complexity cost right there). In the same way that c forces you to be aware of pointers the borrow checker forces you to be aware of ownership.