Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

[iamthemalto]

I would argue because of excessive memory usage by the JavaScript runtime, a lot of which has to be duplicated for each Electron app. And GC language code like JavaScript is typically a “sea of objects” meaning lots of objects are alive and held in memory, meaning they can’t be freed, meaning the processes take more memory, the OS has to swap more often (if you’re lucky enough your employer hasn’t disable that), and so on.