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Totally agree, misleading. The syntax looks like rust, but esp w/the memory management model (reference counting), it’s going to have more overhead than rust w

by bfung 3mo ago

Totally agree, misleading. The syntax looks like rust, but esp w/the memory management model (reference counting), it’s going to have more overhead than rust when it’s running, more like Swift or at worse, Python.

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charlieflowers 3mo ago
Originally I replied here that I thought you were both missing the point (but I was wrong). I wrote: It has a garbage collector and goroutines, so clearly it is not trying to be a systems programming language. Then ... I saw that it does indeed pitch itself as a systems programming language. So, I guess you both are right. If Gossamer were to drop that claim, then I'd say it looks impressive to me. I have often wanted this particular mix of language features.
- reocha 3mo ago
  Gleam comes close if you're comfortable with functional programming: https://gleam.run/ https://gleam.run/
- Recurecur 3mo ago
  It doesn’t have a garbage collector, it uses reference counting with a cycle detector. So, no GC pauses. It should be suitable for hard real time systems.