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by leapis 809 days ago
Agreed- I come from a Java/C++ shop where we tried to tackle this dichotomy with interop but it ended up causing more problems than it solved. A lot of the work that Java has done with modern garbage collectors is impressive, but even they admit (indirectly, via Valhalla) that no/low-alloc code has it's place.
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> no/low-alloc code has it's place

... Which is pretty large in the embedded firwmare field. However that's not systems programming but system (singular) programming.