Rust moving away from GC into reference counting

[Paulo Pinto]

Even as GC fanboy, I have to admit that reference counting is in 
trend for system languages.

Rust developers are thinking to move GC support to the language 
library while keeping reference counting as the main way to deal 
with memory management.

http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/

Quite in sync with the latest discussions going on.

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Paulo