Garbage collection helps programmers the way training wheels help cyclists. The analogy is pretty much exact.
@samskivert And been higher performance as well, since it would not have needed GC. I've literally _never_ seen the use case.
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@cmuratori As an example, the entire Haskell language &c would be infeasible without GC. Dismissing that outright is a pretty big hand wave.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori@samskivert try some c# for a bit with a quality ide/refactoring setup. recompile all your code in a second. refactor globallyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori@samskivert There's a world of software development going on outside games as well ;) -
@firstdrafthell@samskivert Memory management isn't domain-specific. It's a fundamental, universal programming concept. - Show replies
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@cmuratori@samskivert The primary use case I have found is multithreaded graph manipulation (for v. large graphs).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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