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Ever since Java became immensely popular GC has been just as popular, but that didn't mean reference counting ever went away. They're branching paths and differ
by chronogram 5y ago
Ever since Java became immensely popular GC has been just as popular, but that didn't mean reference counting ever went away. They're branching paths and different tools and more people than ever before pick and choose what to use for the job. No circle was ever made.
- habibur 5y agoRight Java made GC popular. And right now Rust is making reference counting, borrow-owner popular. This is what I am observing. That languages get popular is no surprise. But what was a little bit surprising for me was that the tech the language uses gets spread and popular all over -- outside of that language as long as that language stays popular. I right now am think automatic reference counting is the way to go. In a sense C++ RAII is also ARC. But a compiler level support is better.
- pjmlp 5y agoSwift and Objective-C like performance? No thanks.