shared - i need it to be useful

[Atila Neves]

On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 21:24:53 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 17:17:37 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Assuming this world... how do you use shared?
>>
>> https://github.com/atilaneves/fearless
>>
>
> I had posted your library before to no response...
>
> I had two questions, if you'll indulge me.
>
> The first is perhaps more wrt automem. I noticed that I 
> couldn't use automem's Unique with @safe currently. Is there 
> any way to make it @safe, perhaps with dip1000?

Yeah, I punted on making anything there @safe. I have to go back 
and fix it. At least I wrote Vector from scratch to be @safe.

> Second, Rust's borrow checker is that you can only have one 
> mutable borrow. This is kind of like Exclusive, but it does it 
> at compile-time, rather than with GC/RC. Is this something that 
> can be incorporated into fearless?

Well, Rust's version of Exclusive is Mutex, and that's pretty 
much always used with Arc. The closest we have to a borrow 
checker is DIP1000 and that's what fearless relies on.