@asterite @straight-shoota @bcardiff @RX14 @ysbaddaden I am thinking about extra Crystal flexibility and implementing of configurable ARC (automatic reference counting, Rust and Swift are examples of ARC languages). I am thinking of piggybacking on GC and to implement a visitor that will check the…

Implementation of ARC (automatic reference counting) in Crystal

ganymedes May 7, 2020, 8:11pm 21

Is this something what Nim is doing with their gc:arc / gc:orc?

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