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Re:Gleam v1.9.0 Released by worthless-trash on Monday March 10, 2025 @12:26AM (#43317008)
> Maybe they'll figure out how to lifetime-annotate binaries?

What do you mean by this, I know how lifetimes work in rust, but how would you do it on the binary level ?

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Re:Gleam v1.9.0 Released by juped on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:40AM (#43317312)
Binary is Erlangese for Vec<u8>, hope that helps
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Re:Gleam v1.9.0 Released by worthless-trash on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:44AM (#43318576)
There are no lifetimes in gleam though right ? or did i miss the memo.
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Re:Gleam v1.9.0 Released by hayleighdotdev on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:59AM (#43319595)
No lifetimes, absolutely no plans to add anything similar. We’re nothing like rust!
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Re:Gleam v1.9.0 Released by juped on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:21AM (#43318834)
maybe they can add them to guard against copying large binaries too much
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