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Animats on July 30, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reference count, don't garbage collect

> In GC it happens some time later.

Yes. In languages with destructors/finalizers called from the garbage collector, things can get very complicated. C# and Java have this problem.

Go avoids it by having scope-based "defer" rather than destructors.

pjmlp on July 30, 2022 [–]

Java has scope based defer since version 7, while C# has it since version 4, with the improvement on version 8 to be syntactically like defer.

With a bit of generics and lambdas, they can be made to even be more defer like.

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