The original reason I got into garbage collectors (a long time ago, and long forgotten now) was that I was implementing a runtime for a scripted language. When I originally wrote it, I had to do some manual finagling with weak references to ensure that I didn't leak any memory.

In general, the main uses for a GC in rust would be interpreters for other GC languages and working with graphs.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It turns out that graphs are really useful for UIs, so hopefully this makes stateful UIs nicer to work with.

I miss the early days of Rust that included GC'd types.