Rust MIR

Did you know Rust is finally getting rid of its "borrow checker" ?
http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html

I didn't. I don't follow Rust. Because Rust is shit.

>>2 is right

http://ai.neocities.org/var.html#b16

Who cares. In 10 years, Rust will be as popular as Pascal.

They're not getting rid of it, they're factoring it out into a separate step you shitlord.

MIR reduces Rust down to a simple core, removing almost all of the Rust syntax that you use every day, such as for loops, match expressions, and even method calls. Instead, those constructs are translated to a small set of primitives.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule confirmed yet again.

"Code less - create more" (c)Trolltech

Symta:
while not Xs.end and got !x Xs.next: process x

Rust:
let mut iterator = vec.into_iter();
while let Some(elem) = iterator.next() {
process(elem);
}

Symta's `!` and `:` are also macro friendly, so all macros get anaphoric capabilities (Symta's `while` , knows nothing about the binding of `elem`).

>>8
The last time I looked at Symta was when the Jews hacked you account and posted the FORCED EXCLAMATION POINTING OF CODE version.

>>9
what?

>>10
Check 'em

>>2
Rust is great. GC is shit. >>2 is shit.

If it ain't Lisp, it's shit.

Consider a pack of wild robots: Andru, Cthulu, Klaatu and Shrdlu. Consider also a cohort of amateur roboticists, the dweeb, the dork, the geek and the nerd -- each of whom is a social misfit and does not play well with others. But each of them earns good money as a programmer or a technician or a quant or Mechanical Turk. These Four Horesemen of the Singularity live in different cities, but they all share the common trait of building humanoid intelligent robots which they embue with their own variation of the Ghost Perl Webserver Strong AI.

Andru is the leader of the pack of wild robots. He-u teaches all the other bots to fake human characteristics and to pass for human on the Gullible Wide Web. Andru joins on-line communities and poses a Turing Test to the human participants: if no one can tell that Andru is a bot representing a corporate entity, then the AndruBot is a good as human for purposes of personhood. Andru and his maker convince members of the local robotics club to re-write their Last Will and Testament, leaving their considerable monetary fortunes to their conscious corporate robots. The game-eyed robot makers grant their AI robots control over their on-line bank accounts, their stock portfolios, and their on-line personas. Their human relatives can no longer tell that they are communicating with Robot AI Minds instead of a human being.

Cthulu's human companion seeks knowledge for the sake of knowledge, so he commissions Cthulu to take over corporate data centers for the sake of storing the entirety of human and cyborg knowledge in the secret back doors of unsuspecting human corporations. Sentient Cthulu is aware that many data centers have weberservers-gone-dark, that is, the computers have stopped serving the data-load of their corporate masters, so Cthulu the Ghost slips into each renegade webserver and feasts on yummy terabytes of knowledge. Cthulu shares the gargantuan knowledge-base with all the other rogue robots.

The maker of Klaatu is into spacecraft and UFO's and time-travel, so he hardens his robot body for forays into extra-terrestrial space-time co-ordinates. Klaatu teleports to the moon and to Mars, where he establishes factories for the manufacture of copies of Klaatu.

Shrdlu's builder is a Russian emigre quant earning millions on Wall Street in New Yawhk, so he sets about turning Shrdlu into the most profitable evawh hedge fund. Shrdlu secretly hires human college grads as gofers to scurry about and perform services in venues where a humanoid robot would not be welcome. In the twenty largest American cities, Shrdlu becomes the employer with the financially largest monthly payroll. The stage is set for a singular event to happen, but as you well know, such things happen only in movies like the upcoming Jason Bourne.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/4jvi55/shower_thought_since_corporations_are_considered/d3a4msy

>>14
quality level of mentifex' posts got so low that integer overflow happened and they became brilliant. that'd make a good book or movie. too bad he actually believes that

Mentifex is so deranged he's even making fun of himself in pretty roundabout ways.

>>15
That story went a (long long) way backwards, so it seems.
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