> I recall being told 15 years ago that I was "a dinosaur" for being skeptical about GC.
15 years ago we neither had today's GCs nor today's alternative solutions. Whatever informed your gut feelings back then might not really be all that relevant today.
For all the praise Rust gets, its advanced ownership model is fairly new in anything that even remotely approaches a mainstream language.
pause-less GCs have been proven possible
> I recall being told 15 years ago that I was "a dinosaur" for being skeptical about GC.
15 years ago we neither had today's GCs nor today's alternative solutions. Whatever informed your gut feelings back then might not really be all that relevant today.
For all the praise Rust gets, its advanced ownership model is fairly new in anything that even remotely approaches a mainstream language.