You can mix and match manual memory management and GC-managed types in the same codebase.
A couple of bonus facts for you:
- they've got an effects tracking system where you can have the compiler track (and whistleblow!) which functions are pure or not
- their multi-phase compiler allows you to read in source code at build time (from files or external programs!)
- their macro system is typesafe as it operates at the AST level
- the guy who created it will always tell you how he feels
- again with their macro system... there are FP libs, pattern matching libs, and OO libs that can "literally" transform the language to fit your preference
- and one more just for you: they don't support tail call optimization (ducks)
What does this mean?
I have just seen a ... competing language team spending developer time on purging the code of what they call ableism. apparently it's now offensive to talk of a sanity check ot to facetiously refer to OCD in a comment.
At least we may hope the Nim team lacks manpower for such idiocy.
All I found on Google was this gist of someone saying "sanity check" should be avoided. ("health check, too) [1], and some issues and pull requests in projects that were not languages.
One of the latter is clearly trolling to test Linus Torvalds' resolve to be polite [2][3][4][5], complaining about "ableist/saneist" terms, including "silly", on several of Linus' repositories.
You can tell it is a troll because it is just copying/pasting the exact same complaint, just changing the name of the project. It is not even bothering to change the list of alleged problematic words and their counts, so for example it is claiming that perconvert has 144 occurrences of "sanity check" when it actually has 0. In fact every single claim on that one is wrong. The only word from the complaint actually in pesconvert is stupid, which occurs one time, not the six times claimed. Second sign it is a troll is that it is from a GitHub account created just before the complaints were posted.
[1] https://gist.github.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e388...
[2] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs/issues/16
[3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/595#issuecomment-4236...
> Thank you so much, it's so much more inclusive now. My rabbi will be pleased.
This galloping madness is beginning to scare the shit out of me.
>We realise it's a troll, but we had an internal discussion and we decided that we wanted to remove these anyway. We're not being terrorised into change just because a (bad) troll appeared, they just happened to bring attention to a real issue.
Either way, the decision is ... whichever derogative may not yet be blacklisted, sorry, interdicted.
It's looking pretty promising though. Especially if you are a fan of python's syntax.