<![CDATA["Memory safe languages are the future"]]>"Memory safe languages are the future"

Yeah! And also the past!

I know you've forgotten languages other than Rust exist but the lisp family of languages have been embodying memory safety for over 60 years now

]]>https://forum.other.li/topic/8d0ae4b5-74e9-4d48-9ec8-9c7ed20ba6e3/memory-safe-languages-are-the-futureRSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 07:45:45 GMTWed, 08 Apr 2026 14:38:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "Memory safe languages are the future" on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:49:48 GMT]]>@cwebber@social.coop @rnd@toot.cat imean it really depends ? the same program writtwn in rust and c and xompiled with rustc and clang should give pretty much the same executable ?

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://brain.worm.pink/objects/caca84e4-d24e-468c-b827-f1c0cddf1aa6https://forum.other.li/post/https://brain.worm.pink/objects/caca84e4-d24e-468c-b827-f1c0cddf1aa6Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:49:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Memory safe languages are the future" on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:47:46 GMT]]>@rnd last I looked a year or two ago the top-end Common Lisp implementation (SBCL) was roughly competitive with Java and Go in benchmark games. Racket was somewhere like halfway between that and Python, IIRC.

@cwebber

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/Athena/statuses/116369631908622044https://forum.other.li/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/Athena/statuses/116369631908622044Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:47:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Memory safe languages are the future" on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:46:13 GMT]]>@rnd Rust is on average slower than C in most benchmarks I have seen?

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.coop/users/cwebber/statuses/116369625831141904https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.coop/users/cwebber/statuses/116369625831141904Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:46:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Memory safe languages are the future" on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:44:44 GMT]]>@defuneste @deech 😈 here you go

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.coop/users/cwebber/statuses/116369619994408272https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.coop/users/cwebber/statuses/116369619994408272Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:44:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Memory safe languages are the future" on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:43:59 GMT]]>@cwebber how is lisp at performance these days?

because i imagine that "rust is memory-safe" is only part of the reason why it's so popular now, the other one being "and it's also capable of being as fast, perhaps even more so, as C/C++"

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://toot.cat/users/rnd/statuses/116369617020886662https://forum.other.li/post/https://toot.cat/users/rnd/statuses/116369617020886662Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:43:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Memory safe languages are the future" on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:42:13 GMT]]>@deech @cwebber

just give guile a mascot that fit into an emoji 🦀

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/defuneste/statuses/116369610062815604https://forum.other.li/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/defuneste/statuses/116369610062815604Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:42:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Memory safe languages are the future" on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:39:22 GMT]]>@cwebber but are they blazing fast

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/users/deech/statuses/116369598865028372https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/users/deech/statuses/116369598865028372Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:39:22 GMT