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I’m not sure what alternatives they had. Of the top 10 languages on GitHub (https://github.com/languages https://github.com/languages), only C and C++ do not ha
by sjmulder 13y ago
I’m not sure what alternatives they had. Of the top 10 languages on GitHub (https://github.com/languages https://github.com/languages), only C and C++ do not have garbage collection. Those are quite a different beast from Java of Objective-C.
There’s a selection bias here but I struggle to come up with a popular non-GC, compiled language that operates on the same sort of level as Java or Objective-C.
- Aqwis 13y agoPython's GC can be turned off.
- Pxtl 13y agoIsn't python's GC reference-counted and deterministic anyways?
- Roboprog 13y agoHow about Pascal/Modula or FreePascal? It's almost as easy as Java (certainly less error prone as C), and almost as fast as C. Alas, I went to college in a time when they still taught Pascal, but then phased it out for C, which was more widely available on multiple platforms by the late 80s.