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reecko

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    Comment #28352064

    Throwing ad-hominems at people criticising your language is not a good long term strategy, though it might appear to work for a while. Not only there was not any "mentions multiple…

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    Comment #28347758

    Fair enough. I felt compelled to post in this thread because I've seen the "ban unsafe languages" sentiment expressed several times here and on Reddit before (especially on r/rust …

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    Comment #28345308

    That is a neat attempt at making it appear like I am somehow deluded and am imagining Rust evangelism. The person I replied to made a comment down thread that literally states that…

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    Comment #28344184

    No, that is why I wrote "subtle implication" there. Unfortunately on online forums, the term "memory-safety" (which is a well-defined term in computer science), is nowadays almost …

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    Comment #28343904

    Your point might make sense for web facing software because programs where lives are actually at stake are written in Ada or a subset of C with rigorous static analysis and enginee…

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    Comment #28326769

    > To have GC where it makes sense and doesn't add too much overhead but allowing non-GC objects that require a bit more care and where you know you need to free memory yourself or …

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    Comment #28285974

    One thing that helps OCaml here is that it requires definitions to precede usage (like C/C++). Go and most other languages don't have this requirement. Perhaps, this results in fas…

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    Comment #28285729

    > OCaml is much faster than Go in the bytecode mode But doesn't the compiled code run slower in bytecode mode? I think that counts.

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    Comment #27410886

    > Shared ownership is code smell to me regardless of the language This is an unsubstantiated claim. If Rust makes something hard, that doesn't automatically make it universally bad…

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    Comment #27171393

    This is actually funny because unlike C++, Rust doesn't have true immutable types. Instead Rust restricts mutability in two ways. One is immutable bindings , and the other is the s…

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    Comment #27171251

    It is a pity that none of the replies to this comment has actually clarified your doubts... Assuming the absence of `const_cast`, C++'s `const` ensures that a data of the particula…