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0 pointsvacuity2y ago0 comments

Now I'm wondering how far people could go a hypothetical Rustscript* that transpiles to Rust (or hooks into rustc?), introduces extra features such as reflection, removes lifetimes, and changes the defaults around things like monomorphization.

* name intentionally made to make people angry

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suby2y ago

If you're removing lifetimes from the script, I'm not sure how you're then transpiling to Rust, unless you wrap everything with reference counting, at which point you're better off using a language with GC.

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efnx2y ago

There’s [Rune](https://github.com/rune-rs/rune/).

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