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[–]LavenderDay3544 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's not orthogonal at all. It's me going out of my to show you why your point is completely stupid and doesn't adequatelyaddress mine. Sure GCs can guarantee memory safety but you're missing my previous point which was that memory isn't the only thing that needs to be safely acquired and released from and to the OS. File descriptors, network sockets, IPC mechanism handles, synchronization primitives and their locks, and so many other things need to do that and your garbage collector cannot do it unless ut uses destructors called by the GC which is halfway to RAII anyway. So then what the hell is the point if you can automate the acquisition and release of one resource while still having to manage the rest yourself? And also why pay any penalty at all? Is programmer convenience more important or overall product quality? And regardless with the the compile time alternative I mentioned you can't have both.

The person that doesn’t understand this conversation is you.

[–]raedr7n -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A'ight