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You seem to be responding to a claim that Rust invented modules, but I think nobody said that. Nothing in Rust is original from PL theory perspective. It's del
by pornel 9y ago
You seem to be responding to a claim that Rust invented modules, but I think nobody said that.
Nothing in Rust is original from PL theory perspective. It's deliberately not a research language, but a practical one. Rust set the bar here merely by showing up and delivering a decent implementation (in a language that you can actually use today).
- pjmlp 9y agoRust sets the bar with the borrow checker and safer concurrency. Everything in terms of safety and modules was present in languages like Ada and Modula-3.