Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?

Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by klodolph on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:36PM (#29664896)

Also, one of the easiest ways to leak memory in Rust. My understanding is that substructural typing systems are just not quite powerful enough to represent the semantics of double-linked lists, but I don't understand the math myself.

Obviously it won't leak memory if you do it correctly, but Rust will happily let you leak memory in an Rc<T>.

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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by ThomasWinwood on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:58PM (#29679609)

If you really do want to leak memory, Rc<T> is overcomplicated - just call `Box::leak` and throw away the output.

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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by klodolph on Friday December 24, 2021 @09:34PM (#29679815)

Rc<T> is the preferred way to introduce unintentional memory leaks.

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