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Based on the rest of your comment I suspect you're already familiar, but a decent candidate for "Rust with a GC" is OCaml, the language the first Rust compiler
by legobmw99 1y ago
Based on the rest of your comment I suspect you're already familiar, but a decent candidate for "Rust with a GC" is OCaml, the language the first Rust compiler was written in.
- bunderbunder 1y agoIt's close. Perhaps there's an interesting conversation to be had about why OCaml hasn't taken over the world the way Rust has. The toolchain might be a first candidate. Rust's toolchain feels so very modern, and OCaml's gives me flashbacks to late nights trying to get my homework done on the department's HP-UX server back in college.
- sn9 1y agoCan I interest you in some Moonbit? https://www.moonbitlang.com/blog/first-announce https://www.moonbitlang.com/blog/first-announce
- int_19h 1y agoWith any new language, the first question one has to ask is, "what are the guarantees that it'll still be around in 5 years?".
- bunderbunder 1y agoFor paid work, sure. But if it's for hobbies or even side hustles then I don't see any harm in prioritizing fun.
- sn9 1y agoAlways true, but they've made a remarkable amount of progress since the language was announced, and have some experienced people leading the project.