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Unfortunately Unity broken GC is a side effect of them not wanting to improve the stone age runtime they are using.
I guess many AAA could actually be done in languages with GC support, but game devs tend to only change tools when the OS/console vendors force them.
All that is needed is having such a vendor pushing a language with the same effort as they are pushing for JavaScript JITs, lets say.
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Unfortunately Unity broken GC is a side effect of them not wanting to improve the stone age runtime they are using.
I guess many AAA could actually be done in languages with GC support, but game devs tend to only change tools when the OS/console vendors force them.
All that is needed is having such a vendor pushing a language with the same effort as they are pushing for JavaScript JITs, lets say.