[GTALUG] Rust intro

[Nicholas Krause]

On 1/2/20 1:57 PM, David Mason wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2020, 11:22 AM -0500, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com>, 
> wrote:
>> Thanks for letting me know. Don't know if it will be solved as that's 
>> a problem in my view.
>
> I was going to say that you could implement a garbage collector in/for 
> Rust, but first I checked if there was a crate for one, and sure 
> enough, there is: https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc/ for those 
> occasions when you really need a garbage collector. It’s in 
> development, but looks pretty usable.
>
> ../Dave
This isn't a issue that can be solved by a garbage collector which are 
notoriously for having
these leaks but something like a unsafe mode with something similar to 
weak_ptr in C++.


Not sure what the unsafe Rust implementation would would do but its a 
outstanding
issue if you assume that memory has a non circular owner,

Nick
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