> You'd think it would be "solved" by now... Or is that just in Java world? I'm not sure what you mean but I'll try to relate. Automatic garbage collection is

> You'd think it would be "solved" by now... Or is that just in Java world? I'm not sure what you mean but I'll try to relate. Automatic garbage collection is a problem not just in the Java world. It's also needed in JavaScript, Python, Go, Haskell, etc. Citation needed, but I suspect the Java Virtual Machine ecosystem has the most advanced GC algorithms in the world. Even if that's not true, I can tell you with certainty that other language environments have adopted features many years after Java did, such as JavaScript V8 introducing concurrent generational copying in year 2017 ( https://v8.dev/blog/orinoco-parallel-scavenger https://v8.dev/blog/orinoco-parallel-scavenger ). I'm sure there are examples in Go as well where their GC implemented features that Java had a decade earlier.