Rust moving away from GC into reference counting

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Is it an official position or just a blog post / proposal from 
one of developers?

Anyway, given  the recent findings by Adam, D is not _that_ far 
away here. Add configurable global allocators, finally implement 
"scope", move GC to library and reduce runtime a bit - and result 
may be pretty awesome. Hardest part is still "global allocator" 
and assumptions compiler does about runtime.

However, the fact that Rust developers already think about this 
and in D community most real attention to such stuff only came 
together with Manu gives them some advantage.

On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 09:10:14 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Even as GC fanboy, I have to admit that reference counting is 
> in trend for system languages.
>
> Rust developers are thinking to move GC support to the language 
> library while keeping reference counting as the main way to 
> deal with memory management.
>
> http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/
>
> Quite in sync with the latest discussions going on.
>
> --
> Paulo