99% of the time you have the headroom for occasional spikes in memory utilization.
but unless you are seriously writing low level embedded software, you really don't need that control.
much more important is a simple, consistent syntax and simple, consistent semantics.
if you take the position that using GC makes it a "bad" language then you can strike out Rust, Javascript, and Python straight off the bat as well.
if you haven't actually tried to write code in rust, which has a GC but you have to hold its hand all the way, and experienced the 3 months process of getting to being able to write a server. then you aren't qualified to talk about the benefit of GC when you can build a basic web service in Go in a weekend if you have basic understanding of programming.
3 months later, you can do the same thing in Rust.
what does this profit you? literally the stats say 5% improvement in performance.
are you fucking kidding me?
mleku
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2025-06-07 15:26:56
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