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Being able to talk about memory allocation in a safe way is one of the key objectives of Rust. Rust is the only modern language (i.e. not C or C++) I know of th

• masklinn 13y ago
  > Rust is the only modern language (i.e. not C or C++) I know of that allows one to mix [...] heap and stack allocated memory. Technically I believe (to verify) Go does that as well, but the mix is implicit and the system (not the developer) will decide on its own whether a value should be stack- or heap-allocated. C# will also allocate value types local variables on the stack (technically all local variables are stack-allocated, but for reference types it obviously stack-allocates a reference to the heap, the end-result is that under the usual understanding of "stack allocation" only value type local variables and parameters are stack-allocated)
  • pcwalton 13y ago
    You can do it in D as well in much the same way as in C#. (You can get manual memory management with heap allocation as well, but you lose the safety then.)
  • pkolaczk 13y ago
    JVM HotSpot does this, too, implicitly, by means of EscapeAnalysis.
  • noelwelsh 13y ago
    By "Being able to talk about memory allocation" I meant that the programmer has control over these things.