• BB_C@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Is what the author calls a C# borrow checker purely lexically based? The first error message gives that impression. And if it is, then it wouldn’t qualify for any such comparisons with 2018+ Rust.

    • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
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      4 days ago

      It’s 100% not a borrow checker because c# doesn’t have borrowing. It’s just static analysis to ensure memory safety. But the author acknowledges that.

      It’s just checking the scopes the variables are defined in in the first example.

    • Giooschi@lemmy.worldOP
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      It’s a very different kind of borrow checking than Rust’s. For example there’s no mutability xor sharing checking, because mutability cannot invalidate memory (there’s still a GC in C# after all!). As such, Rust’s NLL (which are available in the 2015 edition too btw) don’t really make sense in C#.