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I applaud Alexander's efforts, but the hate is somewhat warranted, because they make misleading claims such as having "innovative memory management" when in fac
by kgeist 5y ago
I applaud Alexander's efforts, but the hate is somewhat warranted, because they make misleading claims such as having "innovative memory management" when in fact they merely use Boehm GC. All the hate could be entirely avoided if their "marketing material" was a little more honest and humble.
- amedvednikov 5y agono, we don't "merely use Boehm GC"
- kgeist 5y agoWhat else do you use besides it?
- amedvednikov 5y agoautofree (compile time frees) it's on the website and in the video I referenced here
- kgeist 5y agoBut you said it's unfinished and hidden behind a flag. And it's been like that for several years. I found this in the docs: >Autofree is still WIP. Until it stabilises and becomes the default, please compile your long running processes with -gc boehm, which will use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector
- amedvednikov 5y agogc is also behind the flag so why do you pick one over the other? the language is still at 0.2
- vlang1dot0 5y agoAre you arguing it's fairer to say V's default is to ignore managing memory at all?
- kgeist 5y ago>so why do you pick one over the other? Because the documentation recommends to use GC instead of auto-free which is "WIP".