> people also thought garbage collection was impossible in a systems language until Rust solved it Only if you understand "garbage collection" in a narrow sens

> people also thought garbage collection was impossible in a systems language until Rust solved it Only if you understand "garbage collection" in a narrow sense of memory safety, no explicit free() calls, a relatively readable syntax for passing objects around, and acceptable amount of unused memory. This comes with a non-negligible amount of small text for Rust when compared to garbage-collected languages.