[Off-Topic] John Carmack's point of view on GC and languages like JavaScript

[ryuukk_]

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 21:17:50 UTC, max haughton wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 20:43:32 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>> On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 17:23:52 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> That's kinda bullshit, it depends on the GC implementation
>>
>> D's GC is not good for 99.99% "of all software in the world", 
>> it's wrong to say this, and is misleading
>>
>> Java's ones are, because they offer multiple implementations 
>> that you can configure and the, they cover a wide range of use 
>> cases
>>
>> D's GC is not the panacea, it's nice to have, but it's not 
>> something to brag about, specially when it STILL stop the 
>> world during collection, and is STILL not scalable
>>
>> Go did it right by focusing on low latency, and parallelism, 
>> we should copy their GC
>
> It's actually 69.420% of all software in the world

Exactly, hence why this quote is bullshit

But nobody wants to understand the problems anymore

https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust

Let's miss every opportunities to catch market shares