Re:Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013)
by tazjin on Monday September 11, 2023 @05:57PM
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How does this interact with third-party dependencies you use? In my experience, most gradual typing things break down at that boundary.
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Re:Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013)
by seabrookmx on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @12:14PM
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This isn't gradual typing? If libraries are not compiled with the compiler option, then all their reference types will be deemed nullable and I need to check for null before dereferencing. I can't do something like "GetItem().Name" if "GetItem()" returns a reference type like I could in Java, GoLang, JS, etc. If that library did use the flag and was provably non-nullable, then I could.