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pron on March 30, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)

You're right, I should have said "languages where GC is the primary means of managing heap memory are used by 90% of the market" rather than focused on a specific algorithm.

ngrilly on March 30, 2024 [–]

Yes, this is quite fascinating how GC replaced manual memory management in most apps over the last 20~30 years.

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