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Re:Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines ... by bfung on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:41PM (#48693468)
Totally agree, misleading.

The syntax looks like rust, but esp w/the memory management model (reference counting), it’s going to have more overhead than rust when it’s running, more like Swift or at worse, Python.

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Re:Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines ... by charlieflowers on Friday June 26, 2026 @08:56PM (#48694018)
Originally I replied here that I thought you were both missing the point (but I was wrong).

I wrote: It has a garbage collector and goroutines, so clearly it is not trying to be a systems programming language.

Then ... I saw that it does indeed pitch itself as a systems programming language. So, I guess you both are right.

If Gossamer were to drop that claim, then I'd say it looks impressive to me. I have often wanted this particular mix of language features.

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Re:Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines ... by reocha on Saturday June 27, 2026 @05:17AM (#48696575)
Gleam comes close if you're comfortable with functional programming: https://gleam.run/
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Re:Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines ... by Recurecur on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:35PM (#48700102)
It doesn’t have a garbage collector, it uses reference counting with a cycle detector. So, no GC pauses. It should be suitable for hard real time systems.
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