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Re:The struggle with Rust by galangalalgol on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:10PM (#13487482)
Does GC imply memory safety? Use after free and dangling references probably can't happen, but I have never heard of a GC supplying cross thread memory safety. The borrow checker does.
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Re:The struggle with Rust by rbehrends on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:14PM (#13493727)
Memory safety in multi-threaded programs is not a hard problem once you have GC. Eiffel solved it decades ago. The JVM also has a weak form of memory safety; it does not preclude data races, but the VM cannot crash as the result of a data race.
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