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Language design with Leo White

Signals and Threads

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O'Kammel

Aki: O'Kammel is very general purpose but it's certainly not great in every niche. I'd really like to make it competitive with Rust and C++ and C for writing low level hand tuned code. Aki: You don't have as much control of your memory layout in O'Kammel as you do in those languages. There is some cost to using garbage collection.

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