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Making a strong association between tasks and message boxes like erlang does makes too many assumptions. That'd be an apt choice for many languages. But for Rus

• rdtsc 15y ago
  > But for Rust, as a systems languages, that seems like a poor choice. Yeah I can see that I guess. It is a lower level language so it would be the same as asking for closures or garbage collection in assembler? > Making a strong association between tasks and message boxes like erlang does makes too many assumptions. It does, and often having good assumptions is nice. One can argue that at some point unless the system is not C then someone can say it is making "assumptions". In their documentation they do mention how they are trying to emulate Erlang (they even have supervision trees for tasks) so my point was that they left a critical semantic feature out.
  • Arelius 15y ago
    Even if a system is C you can say it is making assumptions. The point is to make as few as practical. I think they are trying to learn from Erlang, not replicate it completely. The key point is that the missing feature can be pretty trivially made up for by libraries and convention. Which again, seems like an apt choice for a systems language.