On 08.02.2018 16:55, JN wrote:
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 14:54:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Garbage collection has proved to be a smashing success in the
industry, providing productivity and memory-safety to programmers of
all skill levels.
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. Python was also a smashing success, but it doesn't
use a garbage collector in it's default implementation (CPython). Unless
you mean garbage collection as in "not manual memory management"? ...
Even if "garbage collection" is taken to mean "collecting garbage",
reference counting is garbage collection. Referring to RC as not GC
makes no sense at all and was probably only invented because some people
want to think that RC is good but GC is bad, being too lazy to say
"tracing GC".
