Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by int_19h on Monday June 06, 2022 @06:30AM
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There's no shortage of good-perf languages with a GC: F# would be one prominent example that sounds very similar to what you describe.
The usual objection is that it requires a .NET runtime, whereas Go produces a single self-contained executable. But .NET can produce self-contained executables these days.
Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by ngrilly on Monday June 06, 2022 @11:16AM
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Yes, .NET can produce binary executables, but is it a common practice? I’m asking because I think the ecosystem matters a lot. If it’s a common practice, then it’s more tested and more stable and you get more tools and documentation.
Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by int_19h on Monday June 06, 2022 @09:20PM
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It's a relatively recent feature, at least the "pure" implementation (what they had before was, essentially, a self-extracting binary), so it's still gaining popularity. But seems to be fairly common with containers.
The more I think about it, what I really want is something with the ML feeling of Rust, but in the space that Go occupies (good performance GC languages). Go frustrates me because it nails the runtime and tooling side of things but falls far short of it in the other ways I mentioned.