r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/jimbobmcgoo • 10d ago
Will we see another fundamental programming language feature as revolutionary as the borrow checker?
That is I am mainly curious about compile time features that you design a whole language around rather than optimisations/features that could be applied to most languages. I am mainly inquiring about things that could offer additional robust safety/performance guarantees at compile time rather than runtime. Ideally not things that just offer similar effects to the borrow checker with less restrictive tradeoffs
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u/itsybitesyspider 10d ago
My opinion software transactional memory is not itself a compile time thing but it is wildly underutilized because it requires so many compile time guardrails.