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Comment by keychera

20 days ago

I am curious as well. some past readme has Why sections and I am not sure why they are removed/changed

this have "Why" section https://gitlab.com/FascinatedBox/lily/-/blob/d3ace2907747106...

this have "How Lily stands out from other languages:" section https://gitlab.com/FascinatedBox/lily/-/blob/785a88534cced53...

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Nevermark  17 days ago

> More importantly, this design makes it easy to compose whole programs that will never be paused by a garbage collection by avoiding cyclical structures.

Or by "breaking" cycles, which will trigger the reference count deallocation.