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What's wrong with comparing a GC language with non-GC language?

• lifthrasiir 12y ago
  Wildly different goals, given that there should be some interesting reason to avoid GC nowadays.
  • twic 12y ago
    An interesting to reason to avoid GC would be a belief that you could make a usable general-purpose language without GC.
    • Ygg2 12y ago
      Or having code that's callable from another GC-ed language like Ruby/Python/etc. Two GCs dancing around each other (e.g. Python calling Nim) is a recipe ripe for problems.
  • rdtsc 12y ago
    How are they "wildly" different. I can see different but "whildly" really? GC is an implementation detail with some performance characteristics. Nim can turn its GC off. It can do a soft-realtime GC behavior where you limit its maximum time slice.
    • tomjakubowski 12y ago
      > Nim can turn its GC off. At the expense of losing memory safety.
• moomin 12y ago
  Mostly that we already know what the answer's going to be.