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> or are GC languages like Nim or Crystal good enough? Any programming language is good enough for their own use cases :) It's a matter of understanding which
by pizza234 5y ago
> or are GC languages like Nim or Crystal good enough?
Any programming language is good enough for their own use cases :) It's a matter of understanding which the use cases are.
I'm a big Rust fan, but I nonetheless believe that the use cases for programming languages with manual memory management are comparatively small, in particular, since GC has been improved a lot in the last decade.
For undecided people, I conventionally suggest Golang. Those who at some point need deep control, will recognize it and change accordingly.
- kaba0 5y agoWhy Go? It is quite terrible in expressiveness and if you do commit to a GC you have plenty of better choices. But to each there own, otherwise I agree that systems programming is a niche and a good GC is an overwhelmingly good tradeoff in almost every case.