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(FWIW, Rust is not garbage collected.)


Rust has optional garbage collection


There is a library type that does reference counting. It's not built into the language, beyond happening to be in the standard libraries.


It doesn't. There is a type called Gc that may be garbage collected in future, but at the moment it is just a bad reference counted pointer (the Rc type is better if you want reference counting). And it's not even guaranteed that a GC will ever be implemented, Rust provides other abstractions so GC would be rarely used even if it was implemented.




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