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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Right now, we have to compile the compiler for this ourselves. Pardon my skepticism; I’m not sure this is mature enough.

Edit: I’m talking about the project not the idea. Sean Baxter has shown up everywhere for awhile talking about this. I think his idea has a ton of maturity. I don’t know that the project itself has enough maturity to mainline yet.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's fair. I think the last word in the URL does a good job of representing the implementation's claimed level of maturity:

draft

:)

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You said

This proposal is a new iteration of the language and standard library. It would provide safe language features for preventing such problems existing in the first place.

Either it’s a draft or it’s a new iteration of the language. Can’t be both.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Either it’s a draft or it’s a new iteration of the language. Can’t be both.

It's a draft of a proposal for a new iteration. Is that so difficult to understand?

[–] 4am@lemm.ee -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is “It’s just a THEORY” but for programmers

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

It’s a concept of a plan