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rust at one point had garbage-collected references. And there's still Rc/Arc types for reference counting. I get what you're saying though. Another poster ment
by currymj 9y ago
rust at one point had garbage-collected references. And there's still Rc/Arc types for reference counting.
I get what you're saying though. Another poster mentioned Swift and indeed Graydon Hoare, Rust's creator, is now working on Swift at Apple. And I believe some kind of notion of borrow checking/lifetimes is supposed to be coming to Swift in the future?
- pjmlp 9y agoYes, the initial support is already there in Swift 4, it is called enforced exclusive access to memory in Apple documentation.
- joshlemer 9y agoNot all that familiar with Rust's history or anything but why would he leave to work on Swift at Apple? He creates a language which is getting a huge amount momentum and praise around it, and decides to do something else? Must have been a lot more money, because a situation like that don't come up very often.
- steveklabnik 9y agoHe didn't leave to work on Swift; he left, then got a different job, then left that job eventually to work on Swift. I'm being vague because well, it's his personal life, and he'd generally prefer people not talk about it too much or read too much into it.