Garbage Collection
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| - | Every modern language has [[wikipedia:garbage collection (computer science)|garbage collection]]! In a [[language]] like [[C]] one had to manually deallocate all the allocated memory - without such clean up the running program would continually eat more and more memory. [[Garbage Collection]] offers a mechanism to do such cleanup automatically. It comes with some overhead, but at the end of last century [[Java]] demonstrated, it can be implemented quite effectively. Since then every modern language uses it - be it a dynamic language ([[Python]], [[JavaScript]], [[Ruby]], etc.) or even a compiled language like [[Go]]. There is just a single exception so far: [[Rust]]. | + | Every modern language has [[wikipedia:garbage collection (computer science)|garbage collection]]! In a [[language]] like [[C]] one had to manually deallocate all the allocated memory - without such clean up the running program would continually eat more and more memory. [[Garbage Collection]] offers a mechanism to do such cleanup automatically. It comes with some overhead, but at the end of last century [[Java]] demonstrated, it can be implemented quite effectively. Since then every modern language uses it - be it a dynamic language ([[Python]], [[JavaScript]], [[Ruby]], etc.), [[Java]]-like [[language]] like [[CSharp]] or even a compiled language like [[Go]]. There is just a single exception so far: [[Rust]]. |
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Every modern language has garbage collection! In a language like C one had to manually deallocate all the allocated memory - without such clean up the running program would continually eat more and more memory. Garbage Collection offers a mechanism to do such cleanup automatically. It comes with some overhead, but at the end of last century Java demonstrated, it can be implemented quite effectively. Since then every modern language uses it - be it a dynamic language (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.), Java-like language like CSharp or even a compiled language like Go. There is just a single exception so far: Rust.
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