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So, serde seems to be downloading and running a binary on the system without informing the user and without any user consent. Does anyone have any background information on why this is, and how this is supposed to be a good idea?

dtolnay seems like a smart guy, so I assume there is a reason for this, but it doesn't feel ok at all.

Cyryl is Rustacean and Head of Engineering at Form3. They join us to discuss some of the fundamental language concepts of Rust by relating them to their Go counterparts. They cover OOP, garbage collection, tooling and shares what their opinion on the future of the Rust community is.

A comment from the author /u/ClayTownR on reddit:

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.