A betterC base

[JN]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 18:08:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/8/2018 7:55 AM, JN wrote:
>> Citation needed on how garbage collection has been a smashing 
>> success based on its merits rather than the merits of the 
>> languages that use garbage collection.
>
> You can't separate the two. The Java and Go language semantics 
> are designed around the GC.

I agree, however these languages would probably have been 
successful even without GC, using e.g. some form of automatic 
reference counting.