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aw1621107today at 10:06 AM1 replyview on HN

Are you talking about dropping pointers as a programmer-facing programming language concept (in which case you might find Hylo and similar languages interesting), or dropping pointers from everything - programming languages, their implementations, compilers, etc. (in which case I'm not sure that's even possible)?


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artemonstertoday at 10:19 AM

Only the first one. Ofc under the hood they will stay, but I think its time to ditch random access model and pull fetching and concept of time closer to programmer

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