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aktau on June 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Go Is Not Good

And some methods for manipulating it (slicing it), and reference counting. And macro's for automatically ref'ing/unref'ing.

logicchains on June 30, 2014 [–]

Reference counting? I didn't know reference counting was used with slices, I thought they just used the GC.

aktau on June 30, 2014 | [–]

Yes, but since C is not a GC-language, I thought I'd add that to reach more equivalence :).

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