For GC-based inner languages it's mandatory to mention that inter-language cycle...

		o11c on July 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Functional languages should be so much better at m... For GC-based inner languages it's mandatory to mention that inter-language cycles are nasty. Life is much easier in a world of explicit ownership! I curate a list of what kinds of ownership people actually want: https://gist.github.com/o11c/dee52f11428b3d70914c4ed5652d43f... It's been 6 years since I first posted it publicly, and neither I nor anyone giving suggestions has ever actually found a use for GC.

IME the utility of GC is not for structs but for closures. It’s very easy to cause cycles when freely using closures in non-GC languages.