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kayamon on June 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Crystal Programming Language

It can be argued that shared memory should be explicit-when-needed rather than everywhere-by-default though.

seanmcdirmid on June 8, 2015 [–]

It can also be argued the other way, of course. Do you like eating vegetables or ice cream? It's like garbage collection, some people love it because it frees them from worrying about allocating and freeing memory. Others hate it for the same reason.

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