Re:Dark’s new backend will be in F#
by bachmeier on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:54PM
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> I don't have a problem with garbage collectors in general, but that's only one facet in deciding a language.
In the same sense that the president of the US is only one voice on US policy. If you've been writing OCaml and then you want to change your project to another language, you will most definitely miss the garbage collector. All of a sudden you have to solve problems a second time in a different way, which is something you wouldn't have to do using F#. There's no way I'd shift a serious project from GC to non-GC unless I had absolutely no choice.
In the same sense that the president of the US is only one voice on US policy. If you've been writing OCaml and then you want to change your project to another language, you will most definitely miss the garbage collector. All of a sudden you have to solve problems a second time in a different way, which is something you wouldn't have to do using F#. There's no way I'd shift a serious project from GC to non-GC unless I had absolutely no choice.