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Re:Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing by umanwizard on Friday November 08, 2024 @09:37AM (#42087154)
> They just use the implementation from the last version of the compiler

The garbage collector isn’t part of the compiler, it’s part of the runtime. It’s worth being clear about this distinction because I think it’s the root of the OP’s confusion.

Re:Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing by wrs on Friday November 08, 2024 @10:52AM (#42087738)
Sure, but what’ll really bake OP’s noodle is that Go’s GC is written in Go too. :) [0]

[0] https://go.dev/src/runtime/mgc.go