On Friday, 22 December 2023 at 12:53:44 UTC, bomat wrote:
I think the problem most "old school" programmers have with
automatic garbage collection, or *any* kind of "managed" code,
really, is not the GC itself, but that it demonstrates a wrong
mindset.
If you use (or even feel tempted to use) a GC, it means that
you don't care about your memory. Neither about its layout nor
its size, nor when chunks of it are allocated or deallocated,
etc.
And if you don't care about these things, you should not call
yourself a programmer. You are the reason why modern software
sucks and everything gets slower and slower despite the
processors getting faster and faster. In fact, you probably
should get another job, like flooring inspector or something. :)
and that's the reason why modern programs are getting bigger,
slower and leaking memory. no one should be manually managing
memory, rust is a prime example of that but now "barrow checker
the issue" or "too many unsafe blocks", and as one guy said above
you can avoid the gc in d so...
