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Has it been decided yet if garbage collection should be moved out of the core and only be provided as a library? If memory serves me right there was some discus
by paulkoer 13y ago
Has it been decided yet if garbage collection should be moved out of the core and only be provided as a library? If memory serves me right there was some discussion on this shortly after the 0.6 release [1][2].
[1] http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/ http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-c...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5811854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5811854
- kibwen 13y agoConsensus is leaning towards moving it out into a library. The only undecided thing at this point appears to be the fate of the @ symbol, e.g. whether it should remain as sugar for user-provided pointer types (which includes types in the stdlib).
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- moomin 13y agoSo @ would mean "something that implements the pointer trait"?
- moomin 13y agoI'm hoping the "coerce to borrowed" functionality will work with user defined pointers. Maybe via a trait?
- dbaupp 13y agoThat's the plan: make library defined pointer types first class.
- scopendo 13y agoIf memory serves you right, then it shouldn't matter :)
- zanny 13y agoWell done sir!