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Am I correct thinking early versions of Rust had a garbage collector?

In what year did rust cease having one?

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Yeah, some very early versions had a GC, but I don't know when it was removed. It was long before 1.0 though.

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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>.

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See this great presentation: Steve Klabnik "The History of Rust" The History of Rust - YouTube

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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.

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Never knew it had an '@'. Thank goodness that ugly wart is gone.

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