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Re:D is being used for autonomous driving research – Audi an... by vthriller on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @07:32AM (#20273126)
> Rust … has no garbage collection

What's your reasoning behind preferring GC to Rust's automatic memory management?

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Re:D is being used for autonomous driving research – Audi an... by jonathanstrange on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @11:28AM (#20275195)
Like everyone else's who prefers to have a GC. Go's GC is fine for all of my use cases and I'd rather not spend endless times musing about lifetime annotations and how to 'trick' the borrow checker into doing what I want. Technology should serve humans, not vice versa.
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