From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Microsoft is considering moving to Rust; potential opportunity for Ada2020
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:07:05 +0100
Date: 2019-07-19T23:07:05+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ly5znx7k6u.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871ryop74h.fsf@nightsong.com
Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
> Optikos <optikos@verizon.net> writes:
>> Yes, I also was wondering why Microsoft isn't fervently exploring
>> adding a Rust-esque borrow checker to C#
>
> C# is garbage collected, I thought. No need for anything like a
> borrow checker.
GC is about safely disposing of memory that's no longer accessible from
anywhere in the program.
Borrow checking (AIUI) is about making sure that only one part of the
program has write access to a particular piece of memory at once.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-19 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-17 18:17 Microsoft is considering moving to Rust; potential opportunity for Ada2020 Optikos
2019-07-17 18:53 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-07-17 22:59 ` Optikos
2019-07-17 23:35 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-18 0:29 ` Optikos
2019-07-19 22:07 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2019-07-19 22:12 ` Paul Rubin
2019-08-06 17:01 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-08-06 17:49 ` Brad Moore
2019-08-07 9:09 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-08-08 2:13 ` Jere
2019-08-08 9:25 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-08-06 17:56 ` Optikos
2019-08-06 20:04 ` Brad Moore
2019-08-07 9:07 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-07-25 18:40 ` G. B.
2019-07-26 14:12 ` Shark8
2019-08-15 15:39 ` Norman Worth
2019-10-01 8:04 ` Mehdi Saada
2019-10-02 17:11 ` Shark8
2019-07-26 14:11 ` Shark8
2019-07-27 20:03 ` Optikos
2019-07-27 20:17 ` Optikos
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