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[Mike Shah]

On Sunday, 14 December 2025 at 20:16:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/14/2025 3:55 AM, jmh530 wrote:
>> Lifetimes are as it relates to DIP1000, but the ownership 
>> system is probably as important for Rust’s popularity. You 
>> tried @live for ownership and I think that’s got much more 
>> pushback than DIP1000.
>
> I deliberately designed the @live feature to not require any 
> annotations. And it worked!
>
> It's still a prototype, though, because nobody wanted it and so 
> development came to an end with it.

@live is an underrated feature, I'm a fan and it's something that 
I occasionally use for its simplicity. Sometimes I toss @live, 
@safe, etc. on functions to see that state of my code to see if 
the compiler can help me refactor library code.