i'm sure it's a coincidence that we decided it was too much to ask for programmers to handle memory allocation and twenty years later if you leave a social media website tab open for a day now it's using 876 MB of memory
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Replying to @chaosprime
thinking about it backwards. it's using 875MB _with_ an automatic garbage collector trying to free up whatever it can. now imagine how much memory it would use if there wasn't even a GC?
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Replying to @danlistensto
that definitely makes up for teaching a generation of developers (who i was going to call coders but the word turned to ashes in my mouth) that malloc is a free operation
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