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		Confusion on June 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Removing garbage collection from the Rust language Yeah, back in the old days everyone had that kind of compiler development experience, didn't they?

pjmlp on June 5, 2013 [–]

Compared to what kids seem to know nowadays, yes.

They can grok HTML5 page full of JavaScript stuff, but then mix language with implementation, think that strong typing is only possible with VM based languages and faith at the look of Assembly code.

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