What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages? - eviltoast
  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Hmm, that sounds quite interesting. But because I’ve had to rebut that for everyone else that responded: Is it opt-in?

    I guess, I would be fine with opt-in for the actor pattern, since you either do actors in your whole codebase or you don’t, but otherwise, opt-in often defeats the point of safety measures…

    • paperplane@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s opt-in in Swift 5 mode and opt-out in Swift 6 mode, the Swift 6 compiler supports both modes though and lets you migrate a codebase on a module-by-module basis.

      Agree that opt-in sort of defeats the point, but in practice it’s a sort of unavoidable compromise (and similar to unsafe Rust there will always be escape hatches)