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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by ascar on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:53AM (#19866507)
> If Rust is the answer, why are you pushing for new langs when Rust is sufficient? Something doesn't add up here.

Maybe because he said, twice, that Rust is not all the way there?

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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by tempguy9999 on Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:08AM (#19866567)
You're quite right, thank you, upvoted.

However if he says "Rust gets us 80% of the way there" as you point out then he is obliged, IMO, to point out explicitly the 20% where it fails or we can't even begin to discuss it.

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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by DevoidSimo on Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:07AM (#19866802)
He mentions Rc and Arc which I assume is what he means by the 20%. I tend to agree, although I'm not sure how you would get rid of them.
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