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by bryanlarsen 271 days ago
The fact that a minimum size go program is a few megabytes in size is acceptable in most places in 2025. If it was shipped over the wire for every run time instead of a single install time download, that would be a different story.

Garbage collection is a small part of the go run time, but it's not insignificant.
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onionisafruit 271 days ago
I will be interested to see if Go is able to make use of this GC and if so, how much that wasm binaries
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davey48016 271 days ago
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63904

Skimming this issue, it seems like they weren't expecting to be able to use this GC. I know C# couldn't either, at least based on an earlier state of the proposal.

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em-bee 271 days ago
this thread confirms my suspicions. some languages may benefit from a built in GC, but those languages probably use a generic GC to begin with. wheras any language that has a highly optimized GC for their own needs won't be able to use this one.
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