Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects

Personally, I’d like to see Nim get that growth.

  • hairyballs
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    1 year ago

    We can go further, I think it’s impossible to prevent memory leaks in a general purpose language

    • philm
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      1 year ago

      Not without a super fancy type system that has to be still found. I think the key issue is cyclic data-structures (e.g. doubly-linked list). The language somehow needs to have strong/weak pointers and automatically determining them is a very complex research question…