This is so obviously written by ChatGPT from what I can tell. Not even an attempt to copyedit it unless I missed something.

• thinkafter

  today at 3:57 AM

  I’m not sure about copy but the UI seems designed to look like an AI response which is certainly a choice

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.)

Before I read this, what is there about C3 [0] you don't like?

[0] https://c3-lang.org

• jjtheblunt

  today at 3:34 AM

  C3 is an embarrassing mess regarding integer types and sizes, missing C99's stdint.h defs, for example.

  • strenholme

    today at 3:55 AM

    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
    

    Source: https://c3-lang.org/language-overview/types/#integer-types

reads more like a Wishlist rather than actual implementable specs.

• nextaccountic

  today at 3:15 AM

  every spec is implementable

  some just delegate more or less to the implementation

  • nextaccountic

    today at 3:18 AM

    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...

• Fordec

  today at 3:26 AM

  Who copied off Haskells homework, so here we are.

  • irishcoffee

    today at 3:45 AM

    And cloudflare still somehow shipped a rust binary that crashed half the internet.