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I'm going to have to think more about the author's thesis about runtimes. It reminds me that I would love to see more language implementations with region-base

I'm going to have to think more about the author's thesis about runtimes. It reminds me that I would love to see more language implementations with region-based memory reclamation instead of garbage collection, if only to be able to have more predictable overhead. A pure functional language would seem to be amenable to performing little collections over new objects that aren't reachable from function results, for example.

dnautics 6y ago
You're basically describing the erlang runtime, which is more popular than "totally niche" but not as explosively popular as, say JVM, .NET, JS, or even Dart. In fact despite being a practitioner of the erlang runtime, I would say that its lack of popularity is a point against the author.