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by Havvy 4066 days ago
I see a problem. Neither C nor C++ have garbage collection and other similar runtime features that every scripting language has. As such, if you rely a lot on these features, you could run into issues when translating into a lower level - either in implementation or in memory safety.
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GeneralMayhem 4066 days ago
Modern C++ actually makes for a pretty nice prototyping language if you use auto and std::shared_ptr everywhere, turn on RTTI, and make every method virtual. That gives you mostly-hidden compile-time type induction, explicit type-based dispatch, reference-counted garbage collection, and extensible classes. Then, once you've got things working, you can refine the ownership semantics and internal interfaces.
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dschiptsov 4066 days ago
No, thank you.)
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dschiptsov 4066 days ago
OK, but simple, straight-forward memory management is not that hard. I could even rip out pool-allocations and buffers from nginx/src or reuse lib9 and frineds (which were at the core of golang before 1.5) There is also Boehm GC.

And if I didn't mentioned Golang It doesn't mean that I am unaware of its existence.)

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