Re:The Spiral Language
by ConcernedCoder on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:21AM
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I'm with you, this should be my entry in: [Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513576)
My apologies for getting a bit philosophical here at the end, but this kind of treatment is among my favorite things to encounter having had the privilege of being born at the cusp of the information age. During the first 50 years of the internet we get to casually encounter foundational new ways of expressing software with increasingly more guarantees and expressability from the languages themselves and reap the benefits of the plumbing and infrastructure that inevitably arises from such. Rust's compile time memory tracking borrow system comes to mind as another such set of compiler based guarantees that we have now that we just didn't have when I was a kid.
tldr: Exciting times to be alive and clicking links on the internet.