You don't like GC? Do you?

Fri Oct 12 19:46:16 UTC 2018

On Friday, 12 October 2018 at 19:06:36 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

> What a bunch of nonsense! I used to talk like this some 20 
> years ago when all I saw in the computing world was C and C++...
>
> Sure garbage collection is not for every project, depends what 
> industry you are in I guess... In my case (business 
> applications/services) I have never had the need to turn off 
> garbage collection!
>
> However, someone in the gaming industry, embedded or realtime 
> systems would indeed need to turn off the GC...

Who said anything about turning it off? I'm pointing out that 
using the GC for the sake of simplicity is precisely the wrong 
reason to do so, that's it. Bunch of nonsense, right. Have fun 
writing sloppy code then.