Less likely, but it certainly can. The problem isn't the garbage collector; it's the overall approach to threading. Rust has a different culture that makes prob

Less likely, but it certainly can. The problem isn't the garbage collector; it's the overall approach to threading. Rust has a different culture that makes problems like this probably less of an issue, but nothing stops you implementing a memory leak. In fact, since it doesn't have a GC, you can trivially create a memory leak by creating a reference loop... though the ownership checker makes that in itself really difficult, and so it's again less likely to happen than it otherwise would be. At the cost of loops being hard to make even if you want them.