The lone wolf coder optimizing a language is excited about advances in garbage collection, which AFAICT have not slowed down. I'm in the "old-timer" bucket thi

The lone wolf coder optimizing a language is excited about advances in garbage collection, which AFAICT have not slowed down. I'm in the "old-timer" bucket this essay describes, and I really can't twist my mind into any perspective that makes today less exciting than 20 years ago.