A D vs. Rust example

[Walter Bright]

On 10/27/2022 4:51 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 28/10/2022 12:40 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> After all, whatcha gonna do with malloc/free in CTFE?
> 
> Allocate and free memory?

I meant this at a more meta level - people write their own allocators a lot.


> CTFE is just an application VM, even if we have limitations, they are not 
> inherent to the theory ;)

Yes, it is technically possible. But there's no actual purpose to malloc/free in 
CTFE. The GC works just fine, and it's memory safe, and it's much more convenient.