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I've only written php, Python and R to any large-ish extend and way back in the day i was introduced to programming using Delphi. I have absolutely no idea abo

• baq 4y ago
  1. garbage collection is amazing for developer productivity if you can afford it. 2. if you don't know if you can afford it, you can.
  • pkolaczk 4y ago
    > 1. garbage collection is amazing for developer productivity if you can afford it. Probably not for everybody. I haven't noticed any significant productivity boost when coming from C++ to Java years back, and then I also can't see any significant productivity decrease when switching from Java to Rust. I feel the unavailability of GC is widely offset by other features that make Rust more productive than Java. Surely, I got stuck once or twice while learning (Rust is harder than Java) but once it clicked, I know which things to avoid and generally it goes very smoothly. Now there are many things I love about Rust and I constantly miss in Java. (The number of times I wished I had RAII in Java) > (The number of times I wished I had tracing GC in Rust).
    • baq 4y ago
      > coming from C++ to Java if you were a competent C++ programmer, yeah, i can absolutely see that; nowadays, most people start with a GC-ed language and get tripped up all the time if things they take for granted aren't there. unsurprisingly.