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> then Jakt, their own novel programming language, because neither C++ nor Rust is what makes him perfectly happy. TBH Jakt defaults to reference counting, whi
by SkiFire13 3y ago
> then Jakt, their own novel programming language, because neither C++ nor Rust is what makes him perfectly happy.
TBH Jakt defaults to reference counting, which makes it compete more with Swift and Go rather than C/C++/Rust.
- bobajeff 3y agoAs far as I can tell Jakt's reference counting is not optional. So it may be closer to Swift. That being said I've seen a few people here suggest it's easier to use rust's Rc and Box for everything and treat it like Haskell or Scala. So it might not be so different in practice.
- Neikius 3y agoWait what. Doesn't go have a proper garbage collector or do I need to get reeducated?
- SkiFire13 3y agoYes, it does have a garbage collection, I wasn't trying to imply it uses reference counting. (Though to be fair reference counting can be considered a rather rudimentary way of doing garbage collection.)