> At no point in invoking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman does one bother to define what a true sc

> At no point in invoking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman does one bother to define what a true scotsman is, only what it is not by way of handwaving away any example of problems with a category by implying the category excludes them. It's exactly what you've done when you state "People who argue against GC are almost always arguing against" some ancient, nonmodern, unoptimized GC. Yes, that is how a NTS works, which is why you should be able to see that my argument isn't one. If I had said the common criticism of GCs ("they have long pause times") is invalid because the only True GC is a low-latency GC, then I would have made an NTS argument. But instead I argued that the common criticism of GCs doesn't refute GCs categorically as GC critics believe, it only refutes high-latency GCs. I'm not arguing that True GCs are modern, optimized, etc, only that some GCs are modern and optimized and the conventional anti-GC arguments/assumptions ("long pause times") don't always apply.