[zurn]

> I wish latency wasn't something the designers punted on.

The simplistic GC isn't part of the language design, it's a stopgap in the first version.

[cwzwarich]

Do they have a standard ABI or FFI for interaction with C? If so, they probably designed the assumption of a conservative GC into it. You can always make an incompatible change, but it's a pain.