Rust moving away from GC into reference counting

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Mon Jun 3 09:00:38 PDT 2013


Haha, wow. Indeed, isn't that well timed with respect to recent
discussions! ;)
Post-dconf, I gave it some serious thought and I'm kinda convincing myself
more and more each day that it's the way to go.

On 3 June 2013 19:10, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> 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/<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
>
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