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What is the point of the article? To insert absolutist "truths" about a whole range of issues while disallowing anyone to disagree lest he is a pedant? Calling

• stephc_int13 7y ago
  I think the case would have been much stronger if the author didn't mix his argument with his opinions about GC, Python, etc.
• travisjungroth 7y ago
  When someone makes a pretty soft general statement, pointing out small details that are on the other side doesn’t disprove them and doesn’t help anything. I see it all the time online. Someone makes a statement, and then someone implicitly or explicitly disagrees and offers up a detail that doesn’t actually refute anything. When I get hit by these I ask “what did I say that you disagree with?” Take the first example. The main point is GCs save time. A bad refutation is pointing out the downsides that exist. Of course there are downsides. A good disagreement is something like “Garbage collected languages don’t end up saving time in the long run. They’re so widely used now that most projects start with them, even the ones that grow into huge applications. And since the developers aren’t used to handling memory directly, relatively rare bugs can spiral out of control and slow down a whole company.” That’s not an argument I would make, but it’s a decent one that refutes the actual point of the statement.