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Fri 26 Nov 2021

Go Does Not Need a Java Style GC

Modern languages such as Go, Julia and Rust don’t need complex garbage collectors like the ones use by Java C#. But why?

To explain why, we need to get into how garbage collectors work and how different languages allocate memory in different ways. However, we will start by looking at why Java in particular needs such a complex garbage collector.

Source: Go Does Not Need a Java Style GC, an article by Erik Engheim.