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by rtpg 4244 days ago
I think we've all used software that suffers from some pretty intense memory leaks ( including older versions of firefox!), and garbage collectors can be "good enough" for a huge amount of applications.

Most applications are _not_ games or web browsers, but enterprise-y CRUD applications.

I'm fine with having the ability to turn that off for specific things, but it should be made as inconvenient as possible to avoid the "Can't have GC pauses in my todo list" usecase.