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You can consistently use reference counting if you want to avoid thinking too much about memory management. Haskell vs Rust is probably a question of much more
by jonex 7y ago
You can consistently use reference counting if you want to avoid thinking too much about memory management.
Haskell vs Rust is probably a question of much more than a GC or not though.
- saagarjha 7y agoReference counting requires extra syntax, though.
- whateveracct 7y ago> Haskell vs Rust is probably a question of much more than a GC or not though. Oh yes 100% My issue was that the discussion was disingenuous. GC was used to knock Haskell, but the cost of Rust's memory management model was not listed at all, thus painting an unbalanced pro/con picture (the scales were unbalanced!)