Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Dgame]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 11:04:51 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 10:49:49 UTC, Dgame wrote:
>> On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 10:40:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>> Grøstad wrote:
>>> However, Rust won't fare well in a head-to-head comparison 
>>> either, because of the issues with back-pointers.
>>
>> Could you explain this?
>
> You often want back-pointers for performance reasons, but Rust 
> default pointer model isn't as accepting to cycles. So you 
> either have to change your design or loose the benefits that 
> the compiler provides, at which point C++ is more convenient, 
> but it depends on what you try to do.

As far as I remember you can use pointers as you normally do if 
you use them in unsafe blocks. Not that I ever tried.