Garbage collectors can be scary, but I wouldn't want to live without them! I have observed what feels like an irrational fear of GC in different programming com

Garbage collectors can be scary, but I wouldn't want to live without them! I have observed what feels like an irrational fear of GC in different programming communities. Those communities tend to invent something else that they don't call GC but is either complicated in its own way or not nearly as robust as a proper GC. I am personally very excited about a new state-of-the-art GC with no dependencies that is easy to embed called Whippet. The project has received grant funding through NLnet to finish implementation: https://nlnet.nl/project/Whippet/ https://nlnet.nl/project/Whippet/