[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Ziad Hatahet]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Regan Heath <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 May 2013 23:50:28 +0100, Klaim - Joël Lamotte <
> mjklaim at gmail.com> wrote:
> /emphasis/ mine.  Is it actually true that you can "remove" null pointer
> exceptions at no runtime cost?
>
> It's possible if you remove pointers from the language.
> It's possible if you statically require that any pointer/reference is
> initialised at declaration.
>
> But, is it otherwise possible?  Because both of these options are too
> restrictive for a systems programming language.
>
>
>
The Rust programming language managed to do that, and it is a systems
language (rust-lang.org).
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