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Yes, but does that make circa-2013 Rust a "garbage collected language?" It seems to me that when we talk about GC'ed languages, we're talking about languages wh
by ryukoposting 3y ago
Yes, but does that make circa-2013 Rust a "garbage collected language?" It seems to me that when we talk about GC'ed languages, we're talking about languages where the heap is managed implicitly.
If I understand it right, @ is explicitly invoked by the user, but the implementation is embedded within the language. With Arc/Rc, there are Deref/Drop implementations somewhere in the stdlib that do the reference counting.