Single Ownership and Memory Safety without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Garbage Collection

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this one simple trick language designers don't want you to know June 15, 2023  —  Single ownership is one of those concepts that's both easier and more powerful than we realize. People often think it's complex, because it most often appears in languages that are already complex for...
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