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0 pointsbaby7y ago0 comments

It's a very different language than Golang though, very expressive, generics, no GC, etc.

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ncmncm7y ago

You say that like those are bad things.

Yes, the borrow checker is a PITA vs. Go, but there are compensations.

babyOP7y ago

These are not bad things if you’re writing system code.

spopejoy7y ago

Is there ever a plan for GC?

remram7y ago

There are garbage collection libraries in progress: rust-gc[1] and shifgrethor[2]. If you mean language support, then no, not really, though it was discussed in https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/415

[1]: https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc [2]: https://github.com/withoutboats/shifgrethor

collinmanderson7y ago

I feel like not having a GC is rust’s biggest advantage over higher level languages. It allows rust to work in environments that only languages like C, C++ can work in. (Embedded, shared libraries, etc)

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