Comment on Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?
hairyballs@programming.dev 1 year agoWe can go further, I think it’s impossible to prevent memory leaks in a general purpose language
Comment on Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?
hairyballs@programming.dev 1 year agoWe can go further, I think it’s impossible to prevent memory leaks in a general purpose language
philm@programming.dev 1 year ago
Not without a super fancy type system that has to be still found. I think the key issue is cyclic data-structures (e.g. doubly-linked list). The language somehow needs to have strong/weak pointers and automatically determining them is a very complex research question…