I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one
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If carcinization happens when languages evolve to be more like Rust, then what do you call it when Rust evolves to be more like Java? Caffeination?

A comment from the author /u/ClayTownR on reddit:

The original reason I got into garbage collectors (a long time ago, and long forgotten now) was that I was implementing a runtime for a scripted language. When I originally wrote it, I had to do some manual finagling with weak references to ensure that I didn’t leak any memory.

In general, the main uses for a GC in rust would be interpreters for other GC languages and working with graphs.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It turns out that graphs are really useful for UIs, so hopefully this makes stateful UIs nicer to work with.

    I miss the early days of Rust that included GC’d types.