Carl,
No, that wasn't I. I have barely heard of Rust. Wonder who is hbfavor1943 (my birthyear is 1944).
Harry
On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 17:15:15 -0400, Carl Distefano wrote:
> Reply to note from hbfavor1943 <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fri, 5 Jun 2026 11:26:52 -0400
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> Harry,
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> Thanks for sharing the low-down on Rust. I started learning Rust for my personal programming but found the borrow-checker to be a bit oppressive. I've embraced Zig as a modern systems language that is more C-like. I would have chosen it for XyScript, but it's still in active development, with v1.0 still a ways off. I think Rust will prove to be a solid choice.
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> > Does your colleague have a sense of which direction they're going
> > on the scripting side?
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> It will be an updated version of XPL, as in QuickNotes, but even more powerful. I will probably also add Lua or something similar as an alternative scripting option, and perhaps other programming capabilities as well. All in good time.
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> Carl Distefano
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