This is so obviously written by ChatGPT from what I can tell. Not even an attempt to copyedit it unless I missed something.
I’m not sure about copy but the UI seems designed to look like an AI response which is certainly a choice
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Before I read this, what is there about C3 [0] you don't like?
C3 is an embarrassing mess regarding integer types and sizes, missing C99's stdint.h defs, for example.
To clarify: C3 has fixed sized ints. Maybe the parent poster doesn’t like their names, but they are fixed sized, as follows:
Name Size Signed
bool 1 no
ichar 8 yes
char 8 no
short 16 yes
ushort 16 no
int 32 yes
uint 32 no
long 64 yes
ulong 64 no
int128 128 yes
uint128 128 no
Unsafe identifiers, prone to homoglyph attacks. No TR39 provisions. Worse than rust or Java. https://strawberry9.github.io/the-wrong-memory/Appendix_06.h...
It's great to have it all spec'd out. However, I think specs like this suffer the same fate as war plans: they get modified quickly as soon as implementation begins. Nonetheless, it's good to have a clear idea of where you're headed. I just wouldn't call it "Final."
This doesnt seems to be meaningfully different from Rust.
> does not require tracing garbage collection
Just call it garbage collection.
(Applies in two ways: if you think that garbage collection subsumes reference counting then this language doesn’t require garbage collection in the sense that it also doesn’t require reference counting; if you think that garbage collection does not subsume reference counting then there’s no point in saying three words when you can say two.)
reads more like a Wishlist rather than actual implementable specs.
every spec is implementable
some just delegate more or less to the implementation
that said, the borrowing part is incredibly short on details
i read trying to assess if it's more or less expressible than rust's current nll or the future polonius and honestly there's nothing there
This is certainly copying off Rust's homework...
Who copied off Haskells homework, so here we are.
And cloudflare still somehow shipped a rust binary that crashed half the internet.
and I've had Haskell binaries attempt to use infinite quantities of RAM (looking at an old version of dconf2nix here) and thus crash
Another one?