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by amedvednikov 1527 days ago
> keeping the GC but try to do some compiler analysis to insert free() calls at compile time as much as it can

This is correct.

> Also, the choice of Boehm GC is a little bit disappointing

Which one would you recommend?

> Almost all claims of the usability/stability of the language seems to come from the main creator himself

The creators of Vinix and vsql don't have any issues with the usability/stability.

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>> Also, the choice of Boehm GC is a little bit disappointing >Which one would you recommend?

boehm is conservative. this is a costly and very unnecessary implementation for a language which already has a compiler and knows explicitly which values are pointers.

Thanks, will investigate.

We'll have our own GC in the future anyway.