[jtbaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10qowKUW82U

Around the 13 minute mark, Anders goes into it. IIRC, the big things were the GC and them both supporting cyclic data structures.

[hu3]

Makes sense. Cyclic data with Rust is not trivial, to put it mildly. And GC does make things much easier.