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Re:Four years with Rust by steveklabnik on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @01:35PM (#13231457)
To be clear, Rust has no garbage collector, and unless you type "unsafe", it's safe. RefCell will panic when something goes wrong.

I should take this opportunity to mention that the book has been stagnating because I (along with Carol Nichols || Goulding) have been re-writing it out of tree: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ The ownership/borrow checker stuff has been completely re-done. The existing book chapters explain it in the abstract; in the new book, we use String/&str as a motivating example, since that's an area that often trips up new Rust programmers.

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Re:Four years with Rust by simcop2387 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:56PM (#13232552)
That's great to hear. That's definitely an area that has made me slow down on learning Rust. Will definitely be checking out the new book once it's ready.
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