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Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors by qznc on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:39AM (#9818734)
It was Java which took non-manual memory management to the mainstream. Lisp takes credit for inventing garbage collection.
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Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors by pjmlp on Friday July 03, 2015 @04:14AM (#9824246)
Basic dialects and Clipper, just to cite two examples with reference counting.

Smalltalk was also becoming mainstream before Java entered into the picture.

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Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors by yummyfajitas on Thursday July 02, 2015 @10:31AM (#9819111)
Visual Basic was pretty mainstream before Java. As I recall, it had something along the lines of reference counting for memory management.
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