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i did google search for "refcount meme", and found out your comment as 3rd result, so it's not that popular...
by freecodyx 8y ago
i did google search for "refcount meme", and found out your comment as 3rd result, so it's not that popular...
- jandrese 8y agoI figured he was talking about Rust, given that it is basically a refcount system but with the added constraint that the refcount can not exceed 1. It's the only language that is anywhere close to meme status that I know of.
- richardwhiuk 8y agoArc/Rcs in Rust refcount, but the language doesn't at runtime, or even really at compile time.
- steveklabnik 8y agoFWIW, people make this analogy, but I think it’s quite misleading; a ref count system can make things live longer, but borrowing can’t.
- tom_ 8y agoIf reference counting were going to help, they'd probably have switched to it already by now. I wonder if the poster just is angling for an opportunity to embark on a rant about one of Swift/Objective-C/ARC, Python, Rust, C++ - or perhaps all of them?
- JeremyBanks 8y agoI did a search for "freecodyx user", and found no results, so I guess you don't exist.
- geezerjay 8y agoIn order for a meme to exist, it needs to be popular. A person doesn't need to be popular to exist. It's like you're claiming you are famous because your mom knows who you are.
- JeremyBanks 8y agoMy point was that your search criteria (including the keyword “meme”) is only applicable for what we might call “internet culture memes”, which is clearly not what was meant by the post you’re replying to. Your results were irrelevant.