Oh yeah, completely agreed. The GC does keep improving, and that post is much less relevant than it used to be. It does still apply in some niches though :)

Oh yeah, completely agreed. The GC does keep improving, and that post is much less relevant than it used to be. It does still apply in some niches though :) I think Go's GC is solidly "good enough", and much better than many languages, so I broadly like it. Coupled with built-in tracing that shows GC activity and it's in a pretty good position. It's more that all GCs have pathological behavior somewhere, and no amount of distracting hand-waving changes that.