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As far as I can tell, D already implements this idea. The Rust/RustGC duality is very similar to D's approach, which has manual memory management and an optiona

As far as I can tell, D already implements this idea. The Rust/RustGC duality is very similar to D's approach, which has manual memory management and an optional GC [1], and DMDScript [2] could be the scripting language. [1] https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html [2] https://github.com/DigitalMars/DMDScript https://github.com/DigitalMars/DMDScript

mhh__ 4y ago
D is the scripting language. The whole benefit of D for the company I work for is that we only have one language.
- moonchild 4y ago
  Sil is distinct from d, and has distinct goals.
  - mhh__ 4y ago
    If we did SIL in C++ there's a good chance it'd have something like the UE4 header preprocessor to deal with all the hooks/metaprogramming we were able to D directly in D.