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Re:Bare-metal Rust in Android by diogenes4 on Monday October 09, 2023 @11:00PM (#37828075)
> There's a high amount of impedance mismatch trying to write GUIs in a non-GC language like Rust

Sorry, what does the idea of a user interface have to do with garbage collection? They seem entirely unrelated at first blush, and it's not difficult to find GUI code written in rust.

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Re:Bare-metal Rust in Android by kaba0 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:33AM (#37830063)
Immediate mode vs retained mode. It is not a hard requirement, but the borrow checker definitely makes the latter more complex.
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