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Re:The Lobster Programming Language by dbaupp on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @08:49PM (#19568463)
That sounds more similar to Swift's approach, where the compiler does aggressive optimisation to elide reference counts were possible. Do you agree?
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Re:The Lobster Programming Language by Aardappel on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @10:07PM (#19568785)
Yes, it is more similar to Swift than Rust. I guess people are more familiar with Rust.. since Swift hasn't actually implemented it yet?

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan...

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Re:The Lobster Programming Language by dbaupp on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @10:39PM (#19568913)
The compiler has implemented a lot of the infrastructure for reasoning about ownership, and has had optimisation for eliding reference counting operations for a long time (but the ownership stuff makes them simpler).
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