• First: I Encourage Parallel Experiments in Other Languages
  • Why Not OCaml?
  • Why not D?
  • Why Not Go?
  • Why Not Rust?
  • Why Not Write it By Hand in C++?
  • Why Not C ?
  • Nim?
  • Semi-Automatic Translation
  • Writing From Scratch
  • Why Not Use [Dynamic Language With JIT] instead of C++?
  • Why Not Run the Oil Interpreter with PyPy?
  • Why Not Rewrite the Oil Interpreter in RPython, and generate C without a JIT?
  • Memory Management Strategies
  • Why not use Boehm GC?
  • What About Reference Counting?
  • What About shared_ptr ?
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