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by keeperofdakeys 836 days ago
The funny thing is that rust used to have things like garbage collection. For the kind of language Rust wanted to be, removing them was a good change. But there could always be a world where it kept them.

https://pcwalton.github.io/_posts/2013-06-02-removing-garbag...

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> the kind of language Rust wanted to be

That has changed through the years: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html

The @blah references were actually just Arc sugar