Re:The future of M:N threading
by wmf on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:39PM
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A little while back Rust decided to drop segmented stacks and use normal stacks (and basically give up on 32-bit), so now they're deciding between M:N with full-size stacks or 1:1 with full-size stacks. The dominoes are falling.
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In a year Rust is like C with a better type system and ML syntax. Not that interesting as a language anymore, but more useful in practice.
> Not that interesting as a language anymore, but more useful in practice.
I think Rust is still pretty interesting. The borrow checker is extremely intricate and is completely unlike anything seen in any industry language so far.
"a better type system" glosses over a lot, though. if all rust can do is bring linear typing and algebraic datatypes to c that will be a significant achievement.
I thought the same, piling up on the removal of typestate which was the weirdest/most interesting thing in rust.
I wish there was something like C but with a better type system, I don't think rust will fill that gap. There are still too many inconsistencies between abstractions with overhead and without making it a C++ replacement if anything.