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

[Patrick Schluter]

On Monday, 8 August 2022 at 19:49:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> That's why these days, I don't pay much attention to people 
> complaining about how this or that is "too inefficient" or "too 
> slow".  Show me actual profiler measurements, and I might pay 
> more attention. Otherwise, I just consign it to the premature 
> optimization bin.

Exactly. That's why I always call the C++ and Rust for 
performance (Rust for safety is a bit different) as POOP 
languages: Premature Optimization Oriented Programming languages.