Does it though? Java's garbage collector is very mature and can be tuned any which way. It's definitely more mature than Go's (although Go's is getting better

Does it though? Java's garbage collector is very mature and can be tuned any which way. It's definitely more mature than Go's (although Go's is getting better all the time). Not to mention, Unity uses a garbage collector (for all the C# bits, which is a very significant part), as does Unreal (their own written in C++), and even game-oriented languages like Flash and Haxe have garbage collectors. I'm not sure it's as big a problem as popular wisdom would state. Edit - here's some documentation from Oracle about tuning the GC: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gctuning/ergonomics.html#sthref12 https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gc...