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Rust was originally garbage collected. From Graydon Hoare's post, he didn't want explicit lifetimes originally either. He agreed because he thought they would a
by trealira 3y ago
Rust was originally garbage collected. From Graydon Hoare's post, he didn't want explicit lifetimes originally either. He agreed because he thought they would always be inferred by the compiler.
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html
It seems to me that Rust evolved into a better C++, but it did not start out that way.
- iopq 3y agoEarly on I argued for bignums and decimals in Rust, imagining also things like automatic currying, and other FP features But it went a completely different way, ripping out any runtime it had, making reference counting a lot more noisy, etc. It would be interesting to build a "simpler Rust"