• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, it might be better, I don’t actually know. It’s not as novel as OP maybe thinks it is, though.

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      1 day ago

      That’s fair; Python, Swift, and most Lisps all use or have previously used reference-counting. But the quoted sentence isn’t wrong, since it said no “garbage collection pauses” rather than “garbage collection.”