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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by Gaelan on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:28PM (#15595847)
GC helps with file handles. Just give the "file" object a destructor that closes the underlying handle.
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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by vpalanc1 on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:01AM (#15599508)
... and, it will be eventually closed. Maybe. Definitely before the program quits. Not sure that it'll be closed before you run out of file handles, though.
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