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Unless you care about resources other than memory. GC doesn't help to make sure mutexes don't deadlock and files are closed. As far as I know there is no genera

• naasking 9y ago
  Even still, you can opt-in to those features in a GC language when you need it, but the contrary is not the case in Rust at the moment.
  • sqeaky 9y ago
    But you can't opt out of the problems with garbage collectors without dropping the language.
    • naasking 9y ago
      Most common GC "problems" have fairly simple solutions. If we're talking about 50GB+ heaps, then we're already talking about a problem that's getting significant engineering investment, so custom solutions become warranted, ie. a special purpose library that manages its own resources that plugs into the safe runtime, similar to unsafe Rust, just less integrated.