[amedvednikov]

no, we don't "merely use Boehm GC"

[kgeist]

What else do you use besides it?

[amedvednikov]

autofree (compile time frees)

it's on the website and in the video I referenced here

[kgeist]

But you said it's unfinished and hidden behind a flag. And it's been like that for several years.

I found this in the docs:

>Autofree is still WIP. Until it stabilises and becomes the default, please compile your long running processes with -gc boehm, which will use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector

[amedvednikov]

gc is also behind the flag

so why do you pick one over the other?

the language is still at 0.2

[vlang1dot0]

Are you arguing it's fairer to say V's default is to ignore managing memory at all?

[kgeist]

>so why do you pick one over the other?

Because the documentation recommends to use GC instead of auto-free which is "WIP".