Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra...
by tmccrmck on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:09PM
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The borrow checker is Cyclone's region-based memory management combined with linear/affine types.
Edit: As an aside, I found a Reddit post the other day asserting that the Cyclone developers knew that it would never become mainstream but thought it was important because other languages would adopt it's ideas. It's amazing that they predicted that regions would be picked up later on by Rust.
Edit: As an aside, I found a Reddit post the other day asserting that the Cyclone developers knew that it would never become mainstream but thought it was important because other languages would adopt it's ideas. It's amazing that they predicted that regions would be picked up later on by Rust.
You can find it here: https://twitter.com/tmccrmck/status/850465514807631872