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		gorthol on June 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rewrite Linux Kernel in Rust? I think it was "safe and performant without a GC" because both Nim and D have C++ level performance while being memory safe as any GCd language is.

rurban on June 5, 2017 [–]

You forgot about pony, which is memory safe plus concurrency safe plus faster than C/C++. Nim, D, Rust won't offer that. M# does because it followed the same principles.

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