Gluon Review

Static typing makes it easier to write safe and efficient interfaces between gluon and the host application

Marshalling values to and from gluon requires next to no boilerplate, allowing functions defined in Rust to be directly passed to gluon

Gluon supports unicode out of the box with utf-8 encoded strings and unicode codepoints as characters

Gluon is a garbage-collected language but uses a separate heap for each executing gluon thread. This keeps each heap small, reducing the overhead of the garbage collector

Gluon is written in Rust, which guarantees thread safety. Gluon keeps the same guarantees, allowing multiple gluon programs to run in parallel

Type inference ensures that types rarely have to be written explicitly giving all the benefits of static types with none of the typing

Static typing makes it easier to write safe and efficient interfaces between gluon and the host application