I Cast Fist to ProgrammingEnglish · 1 年前Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?message-squaremessage-square151fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1139arrow-down1message-squareWhich language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?I Cast Fist to ProgrammingEnglish · 1 年前message-square151fedilinkfile-text
Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects Personally, I’d like to see Nim get that growth.
minus-squareAkisamblinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前Reference counting is a GC though ? It’s a bad one sure and will leak memory in cases of a cycle which most tracing GC are able to do. It’s main advantage is that there are no GC pauses. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting
minus-squarezygo_histo_morpheuslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前I think you know what I mean when I contrast Rust with GC’d languages, we can call it opt-in garbage collection if we’re being pedantic.
Reference counting is a GC though ?
It’s a bad one sure and will leak memory in cases of a cycle which most tracing GC are able to do.
It’s main advantage is that there are no GC pauses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting
I think you know what I mean when I contrast Rust with GC’d languages, we can call it opt-in garbage collection if we’re being pedantic.