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by h0l0cube 852 days ago
Yeah. I think even though the article doesn’t use it as an example, what’s really desirable about escape hatching to a systems language is the ability to in-place mutate lots of data. Specifically sparse mutations of a large chunk of data where a copy penalty would be wasteful. ETS is basically just swapping pointers (which I hope is mutation under the hood)