Re:A half-hour to learn Rust
by tutfbhuf on Sunday January 03, 2021 @04:45AM
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Are there any languages that provides memory leak safety, so that the compiled binary is guaranteed to be memory leak free?
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What does memory leak free mean? It has a semantic meaning.
If I have a queue with elements and I won’t be accessing some of it in the next part of the program, is it a leak? Also, remember that certain GCd languages intern strings, is it a memory leak since it will not necessarily use it anymore?
Well, you would need a way to "tell" the compiler more about your intentions and maybe even explicitly declare rules for what you consider a memory leak in certain scenarios.
To provide an example for a different case: programs written in Gallina have the weak normalization property, implying that they always terminate.