Haha, wow. Indeed, isn't that well timed with respect to recent discussions! ;)

Post-dconf, I gave it some serious thought and I'm kinda convincing myself more and more each day that it's the way to go.

On 3 June 2013 19:10, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@progtools.org> wrote:

Even as GC fanboy, I have to admit that reference counting is in trend for system languages.

Rust developers are thinking to move GC support to the language library while keeping reference counting as the main way to deal with memory management.

http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/

Quite in sync with the latest discussions going on.

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Paulo