A pure reference counting GC in Go
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A pure reference counting GC in Go launched on January 15, 2020 with 57 votes, #656 of 3,486 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
A pure reference counting garbage collector implementation designed for the Go programming language. This project provides developers with an alternative memory management approach using reference counting techniques rather than Go's standard tracing garbage collector. It is intended for Go developers interested in exploring different garbage collection strategies or optimizing memory management for specific use cases. The implementation is available as an open-source project on GitHub.
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