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Crossing the impossible FFI boundary, and my gradual descent into madness
Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a huge corporation. 0 There are only two exceptions in the last 25 years that come close: Scala and Kotlin.
In the case of Vale, how do we uphold other guarantees that Rust doesn't respect, like higher RAII, fearless FFI, determinism, and perfect replayability? Back then, I knew in my bones that I was standing on the edge of sanity, and the only path forward was through that forest of madness and that fiery chasm of sheer and utter folly and so on. I want to give a huge thanks to Arthur Weagel, Kiril Mihaylov, Radek Miček, Geomitron, Chiuzon, Felix Scholz, Joseph Jaoudi, Luke Puchner-Hardman, Jonathan Zielinski, Albin Kocheril Chacko, Enrico Zschemisch, Svintooo, Tim Stack, Alon Zakai, Alec Newman, Sergey Davidoff, Ian (linuxy), Ivo Balbaert, Pierre Curto, Love Jesus, J. Ryan Stinnett, Cristian Dinu, and Florian Plattner(plus a very generous anonymous donor!)
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