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		jhasse on Sept 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why did we choose Rust to develop TiKV? You'll have to manually break cycles using weak_ptr though.

tentaTherapist on Sept 27, 2017 [–]

But you'd have to do that in Rust too, or at least use a library like petgraph, because Rust hates cycles even more than C++.

jhasse on Sept 27, 2017 | [–]

True. But you wouldn't have to do that in most GC languages.

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