Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly

Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly by adrianN on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:15AM (#23778042)

I doubt that you'll write a large Rust program without relying on refcounting at least for some of your objects. Refcounting is not fundamentally different than a GC.

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Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly by zozbot234 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:32AM (#23778437)

Reference counting is a kind of garbage collection (taken broadly), but it's quite different from tracing GC.

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Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly by jashmatthews on Thursday July 09, 2020 @06:24AM (#23778664)

Naive use of RC doesn't look like tracing much but as soon as you need cycle-aware RC like the CactusRef the algo looks a lot like tracing GC https://github.com/artichoke/cactusref#cycle-detection

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