Comment by mapcars
20 days ago
>I really dislike javascript, it is so loose that I marvel that people are able to write big chunks of software in it. I have no interest in trying.
Because they use Typescript.
>The stop-the-world garbage collection is a big pain for games
There is a number of languages that allow manual memory management: Zig, Nim, Rust and few others
> There is a number of languages that allow manual memory management: ... Nim
Nim not only has support for manual memory management, but there're several gc modes that are not stop-the-world.
Also, since Nim 2, the stdlib now is using ARC by default, which is deterministic and has advantages over conventional garbage collection.