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by bunderbunder 2804 days ago
Ah, I think I follow.

So, it sounds to me like it's not necessarily that Rust's model is fundamentally different from "ref counting with a limit of 1", at least in terms of how you should be managing your memory, so much as that the language doesn't let you some things that you really shouldn't be doing in the first place.

Sometimes it felt like Objective C wouldn't just let you point a gun at your foot, it would actively cheer you on while you did it.