I'm not saying it's not theoretically possible for GC'd languages to do that, I'm just saying in my experience of some of them (Python, Lua, Java) limitations o

I'm not saying it's not theoretically possible for GC'd languages to do that, I'm just saying in my experience of some of them (Python, Lua, Java) limitations of the language in terms of how/where/when to allocate memory has limited its use significantly for the domain I work in. > Saying that games and embedded systems "allocate a fixed size of memory up front and NEVER free it, re-using it instead" is almost meaningless. I was using that as an example of being in complete control of the memory... > But not all, or even most, applications are like that. Well again, it must be the domains I've worked in, because at least when doing embedded and desktop software, it's often been a big concern.