A betterC base

[bachmeier]

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/