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

[max haughton]

On Wednesday, 10 August 2022 at 19:15:46 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 at 23:46:57 UTC, max haughton wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 at 23:12:33 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 at 16:32:09 UTC, max haughton wrote:
>>>> dmd not freeing by default is/was a bad idea. The memory 
>>>> usage
>>>
>>> Hmmmm; isnt d compiler pretty quick and fairly good about not 
>>> crashing dispite having a small team?
>>> Why isnt the natural conclusion that it looks like it worked 
>>> out; just corrrect?
>>
>> Your "natural" conclusion is based off a biased sample
>
> Thats fairly self serving a take.
>
> If it was as bad as your impling even a good team would have 
> fucked it up; no?

It's easy to get wrong but I think you can avoid most of the 
"bloat" (most of this isn't so much bloat as in wasted space as 
much as wasted cycles which I think requires slightly more 
nuanced discussion) by having cycle-counting and hard upper 
bounds on runtimes in CI.