[HN Gopher] Release of Oil 0.8.8
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       Release of Oil 0.8.8
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2021-03-20 22:11 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.oilshell.org)
        
       | celeritascelery wrote:
       | > writing a garbage collector has been harder than I expected.
       | 
       | I hear that from everyone. I am looking to write one in the
       | future, so interested to see how this went.
       | 
       | > One reason for this is the unusual set of requirements: it's
       | moving, precise, and written almost entirely in portable C++. We
       | use it for both a little hand-written code and a lot of generated
       | code.
       | 
       | I understand the portability requirement, but I wonder why it was
       | required to be precise and moving.
        
       | chubot wrote:
       | There is some "behind the scenes" info about the Python -> C++
       | translation process here.
       | 
       | I'm interested in any parallel efforts. In fact one person said
       | they made great process on translating Oil to Nim, and another
       | person wanted to rewrite in Rust. That is all welcome.
       | 
       | I think the current strategy will work but it's not easy.
       | Rewriting isn't easy either! But I won't be at all surprised if
       | there's someone out there that can do a better job :)
       | 
       |  _How to Rewrite Oil in Nim, C++, D, or Rust_ :
       | http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/blog-roadmap.html#how-t...
       | 
       | (same comment as on /r/ProgrammingLanguages and lobste.rs)
        
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