[stevendgarcia]

That’s an interesting comparison.

I agree J aligns philosophically (values over references), and you're right that it feels more optimized for pure mathematical work rather than managing long-lived, mutable state in concurrent services. What I’m exploring is whether a model like this can provide similar benefits in CRUD-heavy systems without needing GC or manual memory management.

If you’ve seen J used effectively in that space, I’d love to hear more about it.

[eimrine]

No I haven't, but I want you to notice that this script language has no GC at all. So theoretical part of your message is possible. Just it needs a Kenneth Iverson level of programmer if to continue the work in array programming paradigm.

It may be not efficient at all for using rich types and structs because stack language is the earliest approach whose pros are coming from ability to make the single-pass compiler. If your requirements do not fit in single-pass approach, then you are going to have a really hard time of guessing what and when is needed to be recycled.