skaller

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1. 1.▲
   by skaller 13y ago

   The historical answer is that originally Felix programs were being written for the Shootout and the compiler was upgraded so it performed well. In fact it trashed everything. Then control of the Shootout changed hands and Felix got dropped
2. 2.▲
   by skaller 13y ago

   There's no such thing as safe code. So to do as you suggest requires some set of suitable concepts of relative safety, together with some way to enforce them. I am very interested in implementing mechanisms that provide guarantees. And
3. 3.▲
   by skaller 13y ago

   Rust and Felix both try to be general languages so they're both targeting that. Felix has a better type system. Rust provides more secure but restricted protocol for concurrency, Felix has no such restrictions, it's specifically d