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On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Páll Haraldsson <pall.haralds...@gmail.com> wrote: > To answer my own question, I think Rust might be it (for manual memory > management/"secure"): > > http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/03/Rust-1.0-beta.html > "The final Rust 1.0 release is scheduled for May 15th" - today. > > There probably will not be any official "complementary language". I'm > aware of PyCall and: > > Stefan Karpinski - Julia + Python = ♥ > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsjANO10KgM > > [I can assume Python would be very close to "official", for > library/"battery included"-reasons, for the short (or long) term, but not > for any inherent advantage as a (core) language.] > > http://quant-econ.net/python_or_julia.html > > > [I haven't finished Karpinski's video..], he talks about pure (Haskell) > vs. unpure. I do not think he talks about GC vs. manual memory management. > For a short list of languages, does Rust (or C/C++) need to be on it? Or > nim: > > http://nim-lang.org/ > "Pointers to garbage collected memory are distinguished from pointers to > manually managed memory." > > I'm skeptical that most people actually need a language with manual memory > management (Strostrup isn't..). I think C (and maybe C++?) should be left > out in favour of Rust as it is safer. > > Other dimensions: > > Do you need pure? Then Haskell? Erlang? (is it in some ways better than > Julia for concurrency?) > > Autoparallel: > Chapel (do we need it? Going with autoparallel as default seems to be a > mistake - confusing for users?) Does Chapel or X10 or other PGAS model > language have a change of beating Julia or getting more popular? > > Logical: > Prolog? Datalog? Minikaren? Most promising logical? > > Any other? > > Z, VHDL etc. .. > > -- > Palli. > > >
