So @Kyrenite was showing me a cool new idea she had with GC in Rust and we had a pretty neat realization about this space
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I'm curious why there are attempts to get GC in Rust. What are the use cases?
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https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/09/01/designing-a-gc-in-rust/#motivation … hasn't really changed since then
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basically: - some graphy datastructures are nicer with gc - if you're writing or working with a managed language runtime, you need to deal with gc'd objects
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servo integrates with spidermonkey and has to throw around managed DOM objects Catherine is writing a Lua runtime.
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there's not so much need for *pervasive* GC in rust, but having a Gc<T> type has a lot of use cases
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Cool! Thanks for the overview. I've worked with GJS (Gnome spidermonkey bindings to Glib) before, so in that context I definitely understand how a GC'd type would have many use cases.
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Rust is a good language host
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