| >For me the biggest gap in programming languages is a rust like language with a garbage collector, instead of a borrow checker. I cannot agree more that's the much needed sweet spot/Goldilock/etc. Personally I have been advocating this approach for some times. Apparently the language is already widely available and currently has stable and wide compiler support including the venerable GNU compiler suite (GDC). It also one of the fastest, if not the fastest programming in existence for both compilation and execution [1]. It has been beating Fortran in its number crunching territory, no small feat given the Fortran pedigree with many languages still depending on Fortran based infrastructure for their number crunching capabilities including Matlab, Julia, Rust, Go, C, C++, etc [2]. It also has a nice bulti-in REPL system due to its very fast compilation and execution [3]. For an excellent overview of D programming language please check this presentation at ACCU conference [4]. [1] D website: https://dlang.org/ [2] Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen: http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/... [3] Why I use the D programming language for scripting (2021): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36928485 [4] How DLang Improves my Modern C++ and Vice Versa - Mike Shah - ACCU 2024: https://youtu.be/CnKsOak0DHU |