The people who use software have absolutely no idea or opinion on the topic.
I asked 'the people who use software' and they don't like excessive memory usage or stuttering from bulk collection.
Also libraries written in a garbage collected language are only going to be usable in the same language.
Lots of people only think about the language they want to program in, then rationalize it being fine. That's how we got stuff like electron. When people think about what someone actually wants to receive that stuff goes away.
> I asked 'the people who use software' and they don't like excessive memory usage or stuttering from bulk collection.
Two of the most widely programming languages are implemented on top of garbage collected runtimes: JavaScript and Java. There are many applications where garbage collection works just fine.
> Also libraries written in a garbage collected language are only going to be usable in the same language.
See .net and the JVM. Those are nowadays runtimes with garbage collection and multiple languages.
Really? Because I myself asked the people who used software about Garbage Collection and they said "I mean, it's a job."
The people who use software have absolutely no idea or opinion on the topic.
The people who use software have absolutely no idea or opinion on the topic.
I asked 'the people who use software' and they don't like excessive memory usage or stuttering from bulk collection.
Also libraries written in a garbage collected language are only going to be usable in the same language.
Lots of people only think about the language they want to program in, then rationalize it being fine. That's how we got stuff like electron. When people think about what someone actually wants to receive that stuff goes away.
> I asked 'the people who use software' and they don't like excessive memory usage or stuttering from bulk collection.
Two of the most widely programming languages are implemented on top of garbage collected runtimes: JavaScript and Java. There are many applications where garbage collection works just fine.
> Also libraries written in a garbage collected language are only going to be usable in the same language.
See .net and the JVM. Those are nowadays runtimes with garbage collection and multiple languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages
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How did you get from “garbage collection” to “excessive memory usage”?
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