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Compiling to Rust is a really interesting proposition, because it means the resulting program has the same safe-without-gc properties as native Rust programs.

• quotemstr 12y ago
  Unless it transmutes pointers and uses unsafe blocks, of course. One of Rust's most important features is that you can do things like that. Hell, the stdlib even has longjmp.
  • tomjakubowski 12y ago
    Really? Where's the longjmp function?
    • quotemstr 12y ago
      Err, I think I was mistaken.
  • alkonaut 12y ago
    Surely it just does that, otherwise it would be dropping all the cognitive overhead of lifetime management that we pay (happily) in Rust, without losing safety? If that was possible you'd think it was already in the Rust specs...