[paulkoer]

Has it been decided yet if garbage collection should be moved out of the core and only be provided as a library? If memory serves me right there was some discussion on this shortly after the 0.6 release [1][2].

[1] http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-c...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5811854

[kibwen]

Consensus is leaning towards moving it out into a library. The only undecided thing at this point appears to be the fate of the @ symbol, e.g. whether it should remain as sugar for user-provided pointer types (which includes types in the stdlib).

[moomin]

So @ would mean "something that implements the pointer trait"?

[scopendo]

If memory serves you right, then it shouldn't matter :)

[zanny]

Well done sir!

[moomin]

I'm hoping the "coerce to borrowed" functionality will work with user defined pointers. Maybe via a trait?

[dbaupp]

That's the plan: make library defined pointer types first class.