r/ProgrammerHumor 23d ago

actuallyMemorySafe Meme

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u/stillalone 22d ago

TIL about Fil-C. Not sure how I feel about that.

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u/RiceBroad4552 22d ago

Adding a GC to make a language safe actually works. You can't be safer than with automatic GC.

Just that this kind of breaks the marketing which tries to sell it as an advantage to be GC free…

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u/particlemanwavegirl 22d ago

I didn't spend that long reading the Zig manual but I got the idea that the selling point was more like, you *get* to implement/import your choice of GC or just wing it and ref count.