On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 18:08:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/8/2018 7:55 AM, JN wrote:Citation needed on how garbage collection has been a smashing success based on its merits rather than the merits of the languages that use garbage collection.You can't separate the two. The Java and Go language semantics are designed around the GC.
I agree, however these languages would probably have been successful even without GC, using e.g. some form of automatic reference counting.
