Yes, I’m referring to @foo, which IIRC maybe in the VERY old days had a GC but from when I got involved in 2012 was reference counting, iirc.
Regardless of the specifics here, the same problems apply. Namely that it privileges specific implementations, and makes allocation part of the language.
Yeah, which circles back to the thread-starter's comment. My thought-experimental different version of rust would not mind shipping with a privileged implementation of garbage collection, or having allocation be part of the language.
It wouldn't be a good fit for projects like the ones at Oxide :) I'm very glad Rust itself exists, with good support for use cases like those!
