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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by zozbot234 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @06:03PM (#29667568)
> An immutable GC would only be useful by adding an interior mutability wrapper, which is exactly the kind of friction the paper is trying to avoid.

This would be the most idiomatic approach, yes. They could use a code transformation to automate the 'wrapping' and present an intuitive, frictionless interface to the developer.

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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by steveklabnik on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:14PM (#29668219)
Totally, and that’s one of the ideas floated in the issue. I think depending on how it could be done it may not even lost out on ergonomics in most cases, but I haven’t worked through it myself.
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