[kaoD]

But op means memory and data safe, without a GC nor a runtime, so it can be used as a systems programming language. For "some reason" people only talk about Rust in this space!

[JuniperMesos]

There are currently no widely-used programming languages other than Rust that offer the memory safety guarantees Rust has without a garbage collector. I think this is bad, and I wish more people would develop memory-safe systems languages that explore other parts of the design space like Rust does. But in the meantime, Rust is pretty good, certainly preferable to C or C++.

[zozbot234]

Swift is also memory safe in that sense.

[rs186]

It has a gc in the general sense of that term.

[hypeatei]

Swift uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) which is a form of garbage collection.

[kaoD]

Now I'm curious, how does it GC cycles, if at all?

EDIT: from a brief search: it doesn't.

[kaoD]

Not sure why you're downvoted, RC is definitely a form of GC even if not a tracing GC.