Cyclone programming language and its influence

[Jonathan Goodwin]

On Friday, 16 October 2020 at 20:16:10 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 07:27:47 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> A couple nice mentions of D!
>>
>> https://pling.jondgoodwin.com/post/cyclone/
>
> Really interesting article, thanks!
>
> 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

I am delighted you found my 3-year old paper on gradual memory 
management to be interesting and thought-provoking. My thoughts 
have deepened considerably since then on many fronts, including 
how to improve on the memory management versatility and safety 
features hinted at in that paper.

You can find more information on my Cone website:  
https://cone.jondgoodwin.com  Of particular note on this topic 
are the pages in the language reference on various kinds of 
references and their region and permission annotations. My blog 
(at https://pling.jondgoodwin.com) has a nice series on 
Permissions and (someday) will have a similar deep dive into 
regions.

I love the way that language designers can cross-fertilize and 
build on great programming language innovations that improve the 
developer experience.