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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by ssokolow on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:52AM (#14088356)
From what I remember, it just uses GLib's system for implementing reference-counted pointers in C and is equivalent to using Rc<T> or Arc<T> everywhere in Rust.
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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by steveklabnik on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:45AM (#14089083)
Yeah, that's what I thought. Which is very different than most Rust code!
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