It depends. If you're not doing anything that pushes the boundaries then GC isn't a huge deal. After all, there are plenty of games out there written and runnin

It depends. If you're not doing anything that pushes the boundaries then GC isn't a huge deal. After all, there are plenty of games out there written and running on the god-awful web stack. But historically games have been boundary pushers, and a GC's overhead isn't really desirable in that space.