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Are you sure that ARC is an appropriate name? Apple already uses the acronym for Automatic Reference Counting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Rust's reference cou
by lobster_johnson 14y ago
Are you sure that ARC is an appropriate name? Apple already uses the acronym for Automatic Reference Counting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Rust's reference counting does not look automatic, since you must wrap it in "do" blocks. It's a bit misleading to reuse a fairly well-esablished acronym for something that is nearly, but not quite, the same.
- asb 14y agoYeah, the rust devs have said a number of times they're going to change the name due to this confusion.
- fzzzy 14y agoThe rust ARC stands for Atomic Reference Counting, not Automatic Reference Counting. An unfortunate namespace collision.
- lobster_johnson 14y agoYes. That was my point (atomic vs. automatic).
- pcwalton 14y agoYeah, everyone gets confused here because of Obj-C. We should change the name.