Rust moving away from GC into reference counting

[Brad Anderson]

On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 16:47:35 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 16:01:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> C++11 deprecated auto_ptr in favor of unique_ptr, but it's 
> basically the same concept, and it works very well in cases 
> where you prefer to manage your own memory. D should have the 
> same thing in the std lib, it's not difficult to implement. The 
> ref counted pointers are another similar thing, a bit more 
> difficult to implement correctly and there's a circular ref 
> issue with them.
>

There is this: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#.Unique  
I can't comment how good it is though.