[dockimbel]

> * Apparently, it took it 8 years to get simple (in words of author) G.C. [3]

Apparently you didn't look close enough at the history and are making up fake information.

Preliminary work on GC started in 2017 for a month, then resumed in 2018 for about 3-4 months. So in total, about 4-5 months, mostly spent on adjusting the runtime library and tracking notoriously hard to catch GC-related issues.

[emmanueloga_]

Hey there, I did not intend to imply it took that long in actual development time, more in the sense that the g.c. feature did not exist in He language for that long, for different reasons (evidently it wasn’t a priority).

A dynamic language without g.c. sounds dangerous to use. I’m just surprised it wasn’t a priority for so long.