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With a borrowchecker what does GC let you do that is more ergonomic? I have never used a borrowchecked and garbage colected language so I have no experience to

• ltungv 2y ago
  The borrow-checker helps when you're writing Rust code. But when writing an interpreter for another language, you kinda have to support its semantics. In Lox, there's no move semantic, no borrowing, almost everything is a heap-allocated object, variables can alias, etc. Thus, you need to have a way to manage the memory of the implemented language without the borrow-checker. Here, the borrow-checker can help with implementing the GC safely and correctly, but I didn't utilize it.