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Right. People should just drop the term 'systems language' and project languages along useful dimensions: A: Garbage collected vs. not garbage collected. B: Ge
by danieldk 11y ago
Right. People should just drop the term 'systems language' and project languages along useful dimensions:
A: Garbage collected vs. not garbage collected.
B: Generics vs. no generics.
C: Algebraic datatypes vs. no algebraic data types.
Even with these three dimensions, it's easy to separate major languages
Rust: A-B+C+, Swift: A+B+C+, Go A+B-C-, Java: A+B+C-, C++: A-B+C- (discounting union types)
tl;dr: Swift is not in the same space as Rust.