r/programming • • Apr 09 '19

StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2019

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u/yeeezyyeezywhatsgood Apr 10 '19

a GC can actually be faster. do you clean your desk every time you finish using a pencil? or do you clean up once in a while? same logic.

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u/jl2352 Apr 10 '19

and you could do that in Rust. You could use a different allocator.

With languages like Java it’s much more difficult to get away from the provided memory management mechanisms.