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Re:Microsoft to Explore Using Rust by pacala on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:16PM (#20472516)
Because explicit memory management has a higher cognitive overhead than implicit memory management, a GC-based language is more suitable higher up the stack.
Re:Microsoft to Explore Using Rust by arcticbull on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:55PM (#20472889)
Rust memory management is in fact implicit. Sometimes you have to be explicit about lifetimes, but the two are not the same.