alt Hacker News"none of those stand out as "memory safety without GC" to me" ... can you explain why you believe they are not memory safe without GC? Im more interested to know the points in relation to autofree.
Regarding the details, here is a pretty informative github discussion thread on same topic: https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/17419
It is also accompanied with a demo video (pretty convincing in case you would like to watch).
V-lang is not shiny as other languages are, but, it does have a lot to learn from.
As read in quote given by GP, `autofree` partially uses a GC. And is WIP. (Although was supposedly production-ready 5+ years ago.)
Reading "Memory safe; No garbage collector, no manual memory management" on Rue homepage made me think of V for this very reason. Many think is trivial to do it and Rust has been in wrong for 15 years with its "overcomplicated" borrow checking. It isn't.