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Re:Garbage Collection by tyingq on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:45AM (#21675218)
"There's a reason almost no widely used language implementation relies on ref-counting. CPython is the only real exception"

Perl is also ref counted. Swift too.

Edit: Also TCL, and PHP is mostly recounted...the "GC" just deals with circular refs.

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Re:Garbage Collection by lizmat on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:53AM (#21675244)
Just for the record: Raku (née Perl 6) most definitely does not do refcounting. If you want to do serious async programming, refcounting becomes a nightmare to get right and/or a source of potential deadlocks.
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