alt Hacker NewsPeople don't want garbage. But in any case, they don't want straightjackets like the borrow checker.
Hence, they use GC'd languages like Go whenever they can.
People don't want garbage. But in any case, they don't want straightjackets like the borrow checker.
Hence, they use GC'd languages like Go whenever they can.
Straightjackets can be very useful.
Haskell (and OCaml etc) give you both straightjackets and a garbage collector. Straightjackets and GC are very compatible.
Compared to C, which has neither straightjackets nor a GC (at least not by default).