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Comment by cultofmetatron

21 hours ago

Rust and Zig brought new ideas for memory management that Haskell, OCaml, Erlang sidestep having garbage control. its honestly amazing to me that they managed to get the adoption they have while being so innovative. I say this as a fulltime elixir dev.

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unclad5968  16 hours ago

What new ideas did Zig bring to memory management?

  • lenkite  9 hours ago

    Pluggable allocators. Allocators are passed to functions as arguments, the caller decides exactly how memory is managed. Maybe not "new" in idea, but "new" in being consistently applied everywhere in language & libraries.

    • pjmlp  8 hours ago

      Already Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS had a custom allocator API for its runtime.

      All modern C++ collection types have allocators as type parameters, and this was already a thing in the compiler frameworks like OWL during the 90's.

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