Comment by sebastianmestre
10 hours ago
IIRC this Verdagon guy had a language called Vale... is Valen a rename or a new project?
Edit: tfa makes it clear it's a separate project
10 hours ago
IIRC this Verdagon guy had a language called Vale... is Valen a rename or a new project?
Edit: tfa makes it clear it's a separate project
Hi! Kind of both. Even though Valen reuses 90% of the Vale compiler, its approach (Rust interop, borrow checking with mutable aliasing, etc.) is so different that it really needed a new name.
Also, I really like where Vale ended up, Vale's generational references + region borrowing was a truly weird and unusual memory safety blend. I didn't want that combination to be lost to time, so I wanted "Vale" to keep referring to that.
A bit sad to see Vale archived. Have you written a final post on it (lessons learned, the good and the bad, fundamental strengths and weaknesses, future research needed, all that)?
No, but that's a great idea. Vale definitely taught me a lot about languages and architecture. I might do that...
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