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2026-07-30 23:51 UTC

@witchgirls@woof.tech it kinda feels like rust ticks a lot of these boxes? except it doesn't have a garbage collector but arguably its ownership system is more powerful and not too much more difficult to grasp

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@witchgirls@woof.tech 2026-07-30 23:59

@spacekatia@girlcock.club I'd disagree I think :blobfoxlaughsweat:, Rust is a language where you constantly have to think who owns what and how to manage the memory, even if you're doing it thinking in terms of language constructs (like Rc and RefCell and Box and such). The borrow checker is also a lot more strict and memory arenas, while possible, kinda have to be shoehorned in and are a little inconvenient to use because the language is clearly not made with them in mind The thought process behind memory management in a "mid-level language" is comparatively simple I think, you either alloc with an arena if you can group the allocation with a bunch of others or you alloc with the gc if it's more complicated than that

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