From r/linux: Which language should i use/learn ?

[sarn via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 10 December 2016 at 22:55:22 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> It's always a bit weird when people talk about "resources" as a 
> unification of memory, files, sockets, etc. My programs exist 
> to fill memory and then push bits of memory around. At least 
> 99% of my "resource" usage is heap objects. If it gets slightly 
> harder to deal with memory but utterly trivial to deal with 
> every other type of resource, that's a net loss.

But if your performance is hosed because you're leaking database 
connections, "99% of your resources" being heap objects means 
absolutely nothing.