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Refcounting is also just (dumb and slow) garbage collection though.

• masklinn 3y ago
  The main point is that rust was never a ref counted langage, it had a purportedly GC’d opt-in pointer type. And while refcounting has lower throughput than more advanced forms of garbage collection, it has a much higher reactivity / lower memory overhead, and it integrates much better with other methods of resource management.