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		pcwalton 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig The idea that memory safety is only, or primarily, a problem in large codebases written by a sizable team is an interesting theory (sort of an inverse Linus' Law?) Unfortunately, it's contradicted by decades of experience.

bornfreddy 11 months ago [–]

Just to be clear, I liked memory handling in Rust. It was the sheer size of the language that made it... not fun. But borrow checker made sense.

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