[rogerclark]

Someone please acquihire Sean and his compiler! This guy is a once-in-a-generation polymath: an expert in compilers (obviously), GPUs (worked on CUDA at NVIDIA), physics and topography (JPL etc).

Buy the compiler, get somebody who could build you a nuclear reactor, drug discovery simulator and a GPU architecture. Deal of the century.

[germandiago]

He is out of the ordinary for sure and a very smart person. But I still think that taking a more Hylo-like path to safety would be nicer and would complicate things less.

FWIW, with Hylo you would rely on value semantics, you would not need Rust-style full-blown borrow checks with viral annotations, which is what he has been implementing and you would get rid of any kind of view types for parameter passing. You would just pass values.

I really think that is the path forward to bet on.

For whoever thinks Hylo is too new or experimental, it is not the language itself what is important but what C++ can learn from it. Hylo is based in experience implementing Swift by Dave Abrahams, Generic programming from Alex Stepanov and value semantics and structural polymorphism and value semantics and related work from Sean Parent.

So even if the implementation itself is not so advanced, it is just a natural evolution of all things I just named here which have a track record of like 30 years at least in total with a lot of generic code and value semantics lessons and runtime polynorphism lessons learned.

[pjmlp]

Maybe we could eventually get -fsafe, I guess dreaming is allowed.