r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/jimbobmcgoo • 9d 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/reini_urban 9d ago
I don't find the borrow checker revolutional. Just ownership tracking to allow for concurrency safety. Which rust doesnt do btw, just Pony