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The Future of Programming with Richard Eisenberg

Signals and Threads

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The Importance of Unbox Types in Language Design

With unbox types, one of the challenges is going to be is that unbox types interfere with polymorphism. And so algorithms that people are used to being able to use everywhere no longer work so well. One of the things that we're thinking about doing is some amount of essentially what could become runtime code generation. It comes down to building experience with the feature.

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