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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yes, I read or interpreted that wrong at first.