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

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 21:25:57 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
> 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:
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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

Discord switched to Rust, because they wanted to work in cool new 
toys, that was the actual reason, while they use Electron for 
their "desktop" app.

Meanwhile companies ship production quality firmware for IoT 
secure keys written in Go.