Rust moving away from GC into reference counting

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On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 14:04:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I think we could do the whole owned pointer concept in D too, 
> by making a struct with a disabled copy constructor. I don't 
> know much about Rust's specifics though so not sure if that's 
> an exact match.

I don't see how struct with a disabled copy constructor is 
relevant to owned pointers. Most similar thing D has is "scope" 
qualifier concept (and that is why I do want it so hard :)) - 
hard guarantee that no pointer to your data will live longer than 
data itself. All normal pointers become managed pointers in that 
sense.