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Re:2017 Rust Roadmap by mythz on Saturday October 22, 2016 @08:33AM (#12768411)
> GC is incredible productivity boost which is why no recent language (except Rust) does manual memory management.

Swift is a recent high-level productive language without a GC.

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Re:2017 Rust Roadmap by dikaiosune on Saturday October 22, 2016 @10:46AM (#12768873)
Swift still has automatic memory management. It may not have a tracing GC, buy that's not super relevant from an ergonomics perspective (except that potential cycles require extra work/annotations).
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