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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by zozbot234 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @06:33AM (#33382759)
> With Rust and C++ (don't know about Swift), you s still have to spend a lot of time thinking about memory.

You don't think about memory, you just think about how to ensure that you're always referencing live objects. And you need that kind of thinking anyway to deal with non-memory resources, where a GC won't help you at all.

Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by tptacek on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:21PM (#33387164)
"You can't garbage collect file descriptors" is a very weak argument.