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> it's the myth that garbage collection always automatically means your program is going to be spending 80% of its time doing it and freezing for a second every
by viktorcode 4y ago
> it's the myth that garbage collection always automatically means your program is going to be spending 80% of its time doing it and freezing for a second every five seconds the instant you use a language with garbage collection.
Not 80%, but still annoying enough to dump it: https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
- pjmlp 4y agoMagpie developers would use any excuse to move on. It is less boring than building up the skills to fix the plane in mid-flight. https://github.com/usbarmory/usbarmory/wiki https://github.com/usbarmory/usbarmory/wiki
- scruple 4y ago> Magpie developers That was a new one for me. I sort of understood the reference but the Jeff Atwood post [0] where it's introduced is as relevant today as it was when this was published in 2008. [0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/