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My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust (2021)
Last year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I …
The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I needed more to really understand the language. The Lox language doesn’t have the strict rules that Rust has; it’s easy to create cyclic data structures that would leak memory if implemented using reference counting. One day I realized something that now feels so obvious that I’m almost ashamed to admit it: I am writing a garbage collector and its main job is to find objects with no references from the live parts of the program.
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