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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 16 Apr \ on: Rusty Russell AMA AMA

I used to program in C a lot. Of all the non-GC (or memory ownership) languages, it's my favorite.

If you had to start from scratch on Core Lightning and couldn't use C, which language would you pick?

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246 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rusty OP 16 Apr

It would be Rust. The language is maturing fast, and I'd be prepared to place a bet on it. The performance is nice.

Re: memory ownership, we use tal which provides many handrails with memory management (I wrote it based on the ideas from Andrew Tridgell's talloc library). I would not write a significant C program without it.

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