Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?

Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by staticassertion on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:52PM (#29666323)

It's not that hard in my experience. You generally do it by using a guarded scope where the user provides a callback and doesn't manage the resource (like a thread) themselves.

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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by klodolph on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:58PM (#29669992)

Sure, if that works for you, it's easy. Stuff like crossbeam::scope only solves a subset of the problem, though. When that solution doesn't work for you, it's a pain.

Using a scope is, strictly speaking, less powerful and more annoying to work with than a more general system of linear types. It's like Go's defer, or C#'s using/IDisposable... they work in certain scenarios, but there's a percentage of the time where a lexical scope or function scope doesn't match the lifetime of your object, or can't match the lifetime of your object.

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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by staticassertion on Friday December 24, 2021 @11:41AM (#29675022)

Yep, agreed.

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