> it's the myth that garbage collection always automatically means your program is going to be spending 80% of its time doing it and freezing for a second every five seconds the instant you use a language with garbage collection.
That was a new one for me. I sort of understood the reference but the Jeff Atwood post [0] where it's introduced is as relevant today as it was when this was published in 2008.
Not 80%, but still annoying enough to dump it: https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...