On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 19:34:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/8/2018 10:11 AM, JN wrote:
I agree, however these languages would probably have been
successful even without GC, using e.g. some form of automatic
reference counting.
If reference counting would work with Java, and was better,
wouldn't the Java developers have done it decades ago?
The developers working on .NET had the opportunity to learn from
Java, yet they went with GC.[0] Anyone that says one approach is
objectively better than the other is clearly not familiar with
all the arguments - or more likely, believes their problem is the
only real programming problem.
[0]
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brada/2005/02/11/resource-management/
