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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by pjmlp on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:25PM (#14763205)
> Doesn't support expressing stack allocation patterns, which are essentially to achieving true zero-cost abstractions.

Says someone that never wrote a single line of Eiffel.

That is what local variables defined as expanded classes are for.

    local
       array: expanded ARRAY[INTEGER];
    do
       array := <<1,3,2>>
       sorter.sort(array)
       ....
    end
> Doesn't support 64-bit Windows. Verbose like Ada. Abstraction is weak compared to Rust. Also doesn't support expressing stack allocation.

Says someone that never wrote a single line of Modula-3.

    TYPE
       Time = RECORD
          seconds: INTEGER;
          milliseconds: [0..999]
       END; 

    PROCEDURE MyProc =
    VAR
       t: Time; (* Stack Allocated *)
    BEGIN
       t.seconds := 0;
       t.milliseconds := 0   
    END MyProc;

Being verbose is a virtue in large scale software development.

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