Why many programmers don't like GC?

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 18:51:16 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 18:10:43 UTC, mw wrote:
> Python's `del` isn't guaranteed to free the memory, that's what

Fair point, but I was thinking of the C interop interface. You 
can create your own wrapper (e.g. numpy) and do manual memory 
management, but it isn't something people want to do! It is 
mostly pointless to do that within Python because of the existing 
overhead.  That applies to most high level languages; you can, 
but it is pointless. You only do it for interop...

One can follow the same kind of reasoning for D. It makes no 
sense for people who want to stay high level and do batch 
programming. Which is why this disconnect exists in the 
community... I think.



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