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Robert C Martin's book about software architecture made a point about the fleeting nature of software as a product.

Time goes on, business changes and computers become faster.

At some point, many developers started to see features like a garbage collector, become a good offer with few disadvantages.

Unless we really need the performance, do users really care if the program consumes a few cycles more, if those cycles are being spent on tools to make lives easier for developers, like a garbage collector?

90% of software wouldn't make sense to be written in C



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