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> He also wants a garbage collector (pg. 57) and Pascal / ML family syntax (pg. 58). He clearly wants https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/. Since this w

> He also wants a garbage collector (pg. 57) and Pascal / ML family syntax (pg. 58). He clearly wants https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/. Since this was written in 2005, Rust/the Rust model didn't exist, so maybe Rust is memory managed/ML enough? But I am interested in looking at Nim. Had no idea it was ML influenced. And I think I read in another comment Sweeney hired an engineer to write a new language called Verse.

generichuman 4y ago
> Rust/the Rust model didn't exist FYI Nim also follows the Rust model with sink/lent annotations[0] + optimizes the (not yet default) automatic reference counting with static analysis so that RC overhead is minimized. Nim is like something between Pascal / Rust / Python, not sure why it is not more widely used. > Sweeney hired an engineer to write a new language called Verse. Not just an engineer, Simon Peyton Jones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones [0] https://nim-lang.org/docs/destructors.html https://nim-lang.org/docs/destructors.html