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Gah, can't believe I forgot about functional programming languages here :( > even though Rust fans now adopted this claim Did they? Rust's references seem pre
by aw1621107 10mo ago
Gah, can't believe I forgot about functional programming languages here :(
> even though Rust fans now adopted this claim
Did they? Rust's references seem pretty pointer-like to me on the scale of "has pointers" to "pointers have been entirely removed from the language".
(Obviously Rust has actual pointers as well, but since usefully using them requires unsafe I assume they're out of scope here)
- uecker 10mo agoWhat I meant is that Rust has stricter aliasing rules which make some optimization possible without extra annotations, but this is balanced out by many other issues.
- aw1621107 10mo agoSure, but I think the presence/absence of aliasing is different from what GP was wondering/asking about, which was the removal of pointers from the programmer-facing model.