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113 :: OT: an insightful article about GC and languages

[2012-12-20T18:03:58+01:00]

renoX (orginal) [2012-12-20T18:03:58+01:00] view original

I thought that this blogpost about language design and GCs interesting so I linked it here: http://sebastiansylvan.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/garbage-collection-thoughts/

Araq (orginal) [2012-12-20T18:50:08+01:00] view original

Thanks. But he doesn't mention much that Nimrod doesn't do already. ;-)

adrianv (orginal) [2012-12-21T07:58:13+01:00] view original

Yes - I read this article and thought the author is talking about nimrod.

renoX (orginal) [2012-12-21T09:31:23+01:00] view original

Yes, but independently reaching to similar conclusion is interesting. I'd note though that AFAIK Nimrod doesn't have "unique" pointers which Rust has.

Araq (orginal) [2012-12-21T11:18:34+01:00] view original

Oh, have no fear, we'll get unique pointers should they turn out to be useful. I'm sceptical, so I leave it to Rust to try it out. My limited resources are better spent on a concurrency design that I believe can work. I have some ideas how to tackle it, but I haven't worked out all the details yet.

BTW in contrast to Rust's and Go's designers I don't really believe in light-weight concurrency.