alt Hacker NewsI'm hoping for a future in which humankind looks back with embarrassment at this silly period in its history in which people used to think a leaky and bad abstractions like garbage collection was ever a good approach to deal with resource life-times.
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aziis98 • today at 12:42 PM
Still the whole world runs on GC-ed languages so it must be an abstraction at least some people like to work with.
And I'm pretty sure using a GC in some cases it's the only option to not go crazy.
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immibis • today at 1:03 PM
Did you know the Linux kernel has a tracing garbage collector in it, specifically for Unix socket handles? It seems to be a recurring solution to a common problem.
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Monkey's paw: you get your wish, but so does someone who wants RAII and single-use-malloc to be left behind as a leaky and bad abstractions.
We all happily march into a future where only arena allocation is allowed, and when the arena is overfull it can only be fully reset without saving data. Copying still-used data out if it before reset is not allowed, as that's a copying half-space garbage collector. Reference counting is of course not allowed either as that's also garbage collection. Everyone is blessed...?