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

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 16:02:45 UTC 2022


On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 22:39:24 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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.

I don't know what their reasoning was, but you need twice as much 
memory for GC. But yeah, chat is not a low-latency application.





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