Cyclone programming language and its influence

[jmh530]

On Friday, 16 October 2020 at 20:16:10 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
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> This article that it links to (it's mentioned in the section on 
> Cone) looks of particular interest w.r.t. D's further 
> development of memory safety features and alternatives to GC:
> https://jondgoodwin.com/pling/gmm.pdf

That was interesting. It looks like a big part of that paper is 
basically taking the pony language's reference capabilities and 
then adding a lock permission, which sounds a lot like a shared 
mutable variable in D. Pony certainly comes across as 
interesting, but the emphasis on the actor model made it a bit 
hard for me to grok.