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by amelius 3221 days ago
> It would mostly introduce insane additional complexity.

GoLang has a concurrent garbage collector.

> what's supposed to happen if you ask for memory sharing across the network

Yeap, I mentioned that. Again, as a developer you want the choice. You don't want your language telling you "sorry, that's too complicated for your brain, so you can't do that".

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> GoLang has a concurrent garbage collector.

Golang also has a single, shared, mutable heap, it does not have tens or hundreds of thousands of individual heaps.

> Yeap, I mentioned that.

No, you did not.

> Again, as a developer you want the choice.

Er… no?