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ltratt | 4 months ago

If you've used Chrome or Safari to read this post, you've used a program that uses (at least in parts) conservative GC. [I don't know if Firefox uses conservative GC; it wouldn't surprise me if it does.] This partly reflects shortcomings in our current compilers and in current programming language design: even Rust has some decisions (e.g. pointers can be put in `usize`s) that make it hard to do what would seem at first glance to be the right thing.

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astrange|4 months ago

Also most mobile games written in C# use a conservative GC (Boehm).

Rohansi|4 months ago

Not just mobile games - all games made with Unity.