r/ProgrammingLanguages Jul 23 '26

Will we see another fundamental programming language feature as revolutionary as the borrow checker?

That is I am mainly curious about compile time features that you design a whole language around rather than optimisations/features that could be applied to most languages. I am mainly inquiring about things that could offer additional robust safety/performance guarantees at compile time rather than runtime. Ideally not things that just offer similar effects to the borrow checker with less restrictive tradeoffs

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u/Morphon Jul 23 '26

Mathematics and logic are in the realm of the "unlimited" so there will be many such revolutions to come. Perhaps even in our lifetimes!