[simonask]

There’s just no good reason to conflate the two. Rust’s Arc and C++’s std::shared_ptr do not reclaim reference cycles, so you can call it “garbage collection” if you want, but the colloquial understanding is way more useful.

[pjmlp]

The coloquial term is like people arguing about coaching a footbal team without making it into the field.

Chapter 5, https://gchandbook.org/contents.html

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