[milesrout]

You have misunderstood both the concept of a memory lwak and the concept of automatic memory management. Good job!

No, reference counting is not garbage collection. I am fully aware of the ridiculous claim that it is, promoted by people like you. I fundamentally disagree. It has none of the same properties and doesn't work anything like GC.

[cmrx64]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1028976.1028982

It’s not a “ridiculous claim”, but maybe you think cycle collectors don’t count?

[vlovich123]

Multiple very talented and very knowledgeable people have tried to help you understand and these are people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion at hand (I’m not counting myself because Steve and the other know language design and Rust better than I do). You insist on doubling down on your position instead of considering the possibility you’re wrong. Not much more I can do here. You can only lead a horse to water.

[milesrout]

I consider whether I am wrong often. It happens to be that I am not. It is quite haughty and rude of you to assume that I haven't considered it here just because I disagree with you.

There isn't much more you can do here because you are completely wrong. Instead of facing reality (that Rust, useful as it may be, only prevents a narrow class of correctness issues of varying importance) you double down on its marketing spin that all the things it fixes just happen to be all the important safety-related ones.

Just step back and actually think. I implore you.