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by bmurphy1976 2514 days ago
>Rust looked promising but was taken over by the "functional" crowd and is doomed to Haskell obscurity.

I think that's unfair and inaccurate. Rust is going to remain niche because most developers are happy with garbage collected languages and have no need to switch to Rust. Rust will eat a bit into C++'s domain, but I don't think it'll ever take over the world. GC is good enough, works great now and worked great 20 years ago.
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longcommonname 2514 days ago
Theres many applications where any unexpected garbage collection pause is absolutely detrimental. Even pauses when the kernel cleans up memory cache during a Malloc are detrimental.

Garbage collection is great until then.

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apta 2514 days ago
Your post doesn't contradict the post you're replying to. There are obviously many cases where it is no desirable to have GC, but there are even more where GC does just fine.
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