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“ In languages with a garbage collector (GC), the GC keeps track and cleans up memory that isn’t being used anymore, and we don’t need to think about it. Without a GC, it’s our responsibility to identify when memory is no longer being used and call code to explicitly return it, just as we did to request it. Doing this correctly has historically been a difficult programming problem. If we forget, we’ll waste memory. If we do it too early, we’ll have an invalid variable. If we do it twice, that’s a ...more ”
― Steve Klabnik, The Rust Programming Language

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“ A lot of people want to make badly designed programming languages easier to use by giving them fancy IDE’s. This makes sense if you are forced to use a badly designed language. I think it would be better to try making well designed languages instead. ”
― James Moen

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