Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C

Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jshen on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @11:24PM (#300048)

I like it's well accepted that garbage collection is a huge boon for productivity and stability

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jawngee on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @08:53AM (#300327)

C has a variety of garbage collectors, here's one:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

I wonder if it's really more of an intimidation factor than anything (and I'm not saying this to be a jerk, I am truly curious why people have the perception that C is such a nightmare to maintain).

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by gnaritas on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @11:41AM (#300464)

Again, you're looking at best case. Talk to us when GC is mandatory, not optional, because until then, we'll still have to work with C code that can't be trusted because it may not use a GC. To folks who want higher level languages, CG is not an optional feature, it's a core part of the language.

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jshen on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @10:53AM (#300414)

Are you suggesting that you can be as productive in C as I can be in ruby? If not then you answered your own question.

Second, are those garbage collectors widely used in C code and if not why?

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