Beginner Question Thread

The atmosphere of /prog/ is not always welcoming to beginning programmers, so I hereby proactively create this thread as a safe place for beginning programmers. You may use this thread to discuss your experiences, feelings, and questions relating to your entering of the field of programming. Should you encounter any difficulty on your journey to becoming a computer scientist, have no fear, and post in here! However, try to keep the questions concept oriented, or on personal projects. It isn't enjoyable to do someone's homework for them. Special priority will be given to NEETs and those without access to an educational institution.

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It's not quite like you suggest. Did you know ~ is gone and there was (is?) talk about moving owned boxes out to a library as well? A lot of things were put in libraries—important things, like concurrency—not to play them down but to manage them better. Concurrency became even better for it. GC did too; now it's pluggable.

GC was put into a library because it was possible. The only question was, is Gc<T> acceptable for users? The answer is yes, and so is box T. In the end, people who wanted GC lost nothing, save for a shorthand. There are two less pointer sigils and consequently nobody brings up Perl anymore.