[MLton-user] replacing python in Fedora

[Florian Weimer]

* Christopher Cramer:

>> And, would mlton do a better job on memory than python does?
>
> Last I checked, Python still used reference counting, which is very
> error-prone.

Python's garbage collector is reference counting plus occasional
mark-and-sweep, to clean up cycles.  They also run tests for run-time
leaks.

Static linking makes security updates rather painful.  Fixes in widely
used libraries can result in huge updates.  Distributing such updates
is a challenge.