Am I correct thinking early versions of Rust had a garbage collector?
In what year did rust cease having one?
Am I correct thinking early versions of Rust had a garbage collector?
In what year did rust cease having one?
Yeah, some very early versions had a GC, but I don't know when it was removed. It was long before 1.0 though.
Rust 0.11 (July 2014) removed the built-in garbage-collected pointer type @T
, and Rust 0.12 (October 2014) removed the standard library garbage-collected pointer type Gc<T>
.
See this great presentation: Steve Klabnik "The History of Rust" The History of Rust - YouTube
Also this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5jkvo0/comment/dbium4b?context=1
Rust lost tracing gc with transition to self-bootstrapping rustc, and it lost @ altogether later.
Never knew it had an '@'. Thank goodness that ugly wart is gone.
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