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skariel1 on Jan 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Quick Comparison of Nim vs. Rust

Optional gc is tricky, as you would need all libraries written this way

pjmlp on Jan 14, 2015 [–]

This is one of the reasons why the Objective-C GC failed.

It just didn't work out mixing Frameworks compiled in different modes, many times leading to crashes.

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