
Episode 137: 🇬🇧 Sean Parent on Val (vs Rust)!
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
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The Future of Memory Safe Languages
Val has an LLVM back end at this point that's functioning for Val Dave Abrahams is busy working on the Val standard library. We're hoping to get Val available on on GitHub I was just talking with Matt Godbolt at this conference about the process for that we think we have enough in place that we can actually make that happen. The only language out there right now that's commercially viable that meets the requirements that the security industry actually wants is rust and so Apple if you were at C++ now John McCall who's one of the creators of Swift was at C ++ now.
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