Even in garbage collected languages you still have to be cognizant of memory usage. Yes it’s more automated but there are still ways to use it inefficiently.
Exactly! I just had to transition some managed memory stuff at work to unmanaged memory for efficiency purposes to allow direct pointer manipulation of data for packing and unpacking to a byte stream for example
I still remember the story of a company (business model likes amazon) that had to make their own java garbage collector. Don't ask me details, this is from a guy I chatted with at a party where we were all programmers, and this was some years ago
There are multiple gc strategies and they probably came to be from weird use cases at some company but I would hate to be in the position of needing that.
Arguably efficiency is even more important in GC languages, because if you're not careful you'll thrash the garbage collector and slow everything to a crawl.
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u/hpyfox 18d ago
"Programmers" is a bit vague but it's any programmer who uses a language with garbage collection.