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Re:Functional programming languages should be better at muta... by nikhilsimha on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:49PM (#41116267)
i personally like nim’s approach to memory management - implicitly refcounted, but exposes clean manual memory management when needed
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Re:Functional programming languages should be better at muta... by xigoi on Thursday August 01, 2024 @03:09AM (#41126832)
Also it automatically uses a tracing GC for cyclic types to avoid leaks (but this can be turned off per type or globally).
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