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After having seeing GC after GC fail to live up to expectations... I'm still voting for Rust. So much more control over wether you even want to allocate or not. I know where you are coming from but, I see it differently I guess.

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Whether you allocate or not is a property of the language, not the GC. A lot of GC'd languages encourage or even force allocations all over the place. But maybe we could do better in a new language.

I see a lot of people put rust down for what it is today, and then in the next breathe wistfully wonder about the future of zig, or some other language, etc. It's just not fair.

Rust today let's you avoid allocations, if you want smart pointers you can have them today, I'd you want a GC inside rust, you can have that today as well. Don't need to wait for another language lol.

Enough of Rust is set in stone now that it will never be the language I want. There's nothing fair or unfair about it. That's just the way it is. I still think it is a good language.

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