I'd also assume that what's called garbage collection here is due to the conclusion that if JavaScript needs one Elm will also need one.
Some years ago I wrote a PostScript interpreter and quite a while it worked very well without a garbage collector - all was done with reference counting. Apple shows with ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) that even a language much more complex than ELM can work without GC.
So as long as you don't have cyclic references reference counting should do the trick.
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I'd also assume that what's called garbage collection here is due to the conclusion that if JavaScript needs one Elm will also need one.
Some years ago I wrote a PostScript interpreter and quite a while it worked very well without a garbage collector - all was done with reference counting. Apple shows with ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) that even a language much more complex than ELM can work without GC.
So as long as you don't have cyclic references reference counting should do the trick.