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I think a GC is almost always the most important facet. Can you name a set of languages that doesn't include Rust, some with GCs and some without, where the mos
by sweeneyrod 6y ago
I think a GC is almost always the most important facet. Can you name a set of languages that doesn't include Rust, some with GCs and some without, where the most different pairs are the same in terms of having a GC or not?
- throwaway894345 6y agoI don't understand the question. I wouldn't say having a GC is the most important facet--I'd rather have good tooling and ecosystem. Of the mainstream languages without GCs, Rust is the only one with good tooling and ecosystem (or arguable C/C++ have "good ecosystem" but the tooling makes it prohibitively difficult to integrate well). Further, the other GC-less languages have a lot of other issues, such as poor error messages and bad ergonomics. Basically success correlates with having a GC, but this is a classic case of correlation != causation.