A D vs. Rust example

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Tuesday, 25 October 2022 at 17:16:58 UTC, Don Allen wrote:
> Yes, there are a lot of positive things to say about Rust. But 
> for me, the insistence on no GC disqualifies it from use in 
> situations where a GC-ed language would do the job, because of 
> the cost in programming difficulty that that insistence 
> imposes, e.g., lifetime hell and frustrating battles with the 
> borrow-checker. And that difficulty is compounded by the 
> multi-threaded assumption and the handling of statics.

When developing C++ code, I was solving this problem by just 
embedding a Lua interpreter (and also a much less known 
http://squirrel-lang.org/ because its syntax resembles C). This 
approach provides GC and easy programming for the parts of a 
program, which are not performance critical.

Seems like Rust also can do this just fine: 
https://docs.rs/rlua/latest/rlua/