Re:The Rust I wanted had no future
by dorian-graph on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:45AM
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I was about to ask if there's any "Rust by ML" languages out there. Thank you.
O'Caml is heading in that direction. Jane Street are adding more control over memory layout and allocation, and multicore finally arrived recently.
Re:The Rust I wanted had no future
by gautamcgoel on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:40AM
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Lol there's no apostrophe in OCaml - it's not an Irish name like, say, O'Brian.
You're rude and you're ignorant of OCaml's history. There is no apostrophe in OCaml now, but there used to be. E.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20050207032955/http://www.ocaml....
OCaml is / was short for Objective Caml. Hence the name used to have an apostrophe. At some point that was dropped.
Re:The Rust I wanted had no future
by bpbp-mango on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:00AM
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null type :(
Nim is the closest to what I had originally hoped Rust would be. Especially Nim 2 with the new GC is really exciting. I suspect it will outperform all but the best hand tuned allocators.
It's even hard real time capable, which makes it potentially viable in scenarios like games where GC traditionally hasn't been.
I stopped paying attention to the language around 2012-2013 or so when the direction clearly steered towards the latter.
You may want to check https://austral-lang.org/ out.