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by SkiFire13 869 days ago
> then Jakt, their own novel programming language, because neither C++ nor Rust is what makes him perfectly happy.

TBH Jakt defaults to reference counting, which makes it compete more with Swift and Go rather than C/C++/Rust.
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bobajeff 869 days ago
As far as I can tell Jakt's reference counting is not optional. So it may be closer to Swift.

That being said I've seen a few people here suggest it's easier to use rust's Rc and Box for everything and treat it like Haskell or Scala. So it might not be so different in practice.

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Neikius 869 days ago
Wait what. Doesn't go have a proper garbage collector or do I need to get reeducated?
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SkiFire13 867 days ago
Yes, it does have a garbage collection, I wasn't trying to imply it uses reference counting.

(Though to be fair reference counting can be considered a rather rudimentary way of doing garbage collection.)

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