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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IIRC it's garbage collected, so really it's just a version of Java.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Apparently, I do not RC. I might have been thinking of Nim. A quick search indicates it's not memory-safe, though. It has a few helpful features to keep errors under control, but that's it.