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https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/OwnershipManifesto.md has me like sickos.rs

just the other week, I was thinking it'd be great to have a language that's like a simplified Rust, with borrow checking in the easier cases, falling back to reference counting or GC for all the harder ones. it seems Swift might get there!

I think there's real potential for a new mainstream language that can achieve the same safety as Rust, and most of the performance, without having quite as much cognitive overhead. A successor to the GC languages.

finished reading this :3

yeah, this is Rust's &, &mut, std::mem::drop(), and !Copy, and C++'s std::move(), but for Swift, more or less. it's quite restricted compared to Rust considering, for example, the lack of explicit lifetimes. but this is very exciting!!