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Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages by gameswithgo on Thursday April 22, 2021 @01:39PM (#26905525)
Garbage collection got a clear productivity gain over not garbage collection. But it isn't clear that the various takes on GC languages, Python, Java, C#, Go etc have led to any one clear winner.
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Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages by ska on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:23PM (#26908876)
> Python, Java, C#,

Notably, we've had garbage collection for nearly as long as we've had programming languages - so this has been going on much longer than the examples you give would suggest.

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Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages by bccdee on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:03PM (#26949430)
I'd argue that Java ultimately failed to innovate over C++ in the way that Python did. It added GC, but it's still clunky and hard to work with. In that sense, it's more of a pre-Python language, even though it's a few years younger than Python.
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