alt Hacker NewsI think these threads attract people that write code for performance-critical use cases which explains the "cosmic horror" over pretty benign things. I agree though: most programs aren't going to be brought to their knees over some GC sweeps every so often.
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KerrAvon • yesterday at 3:58 PM
Outside of hobbyist things, performance-critical code is the only responsible use case for a non-memory safe language like C in 2025, so of course it does. (Even that window is rapidly closing, though; languages like Rust and Swift can be better than C for perf-critical things because of the immutability guarantees.)
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I think these threads attract people like that, but also people that want to be like that. I've seen a lot of people do "rigor theater", where things like reproduce-able builds, garbage collection, or, frankly, memory safety are just thought terminating cliches.