Red herring. aidanhs' reply was to someone who genuinely asked why garbage collection is problematic. The comments I'm talking about have not mentioned garbage collection, just questioning what innovative really is. I guess you then tried to infer that they thought that garbage collection vs. reference counting doesn't matter, i.e. isn't innovative? I find that to be an unfair inference. They might as well think that something like that has already been done/is being done, i.e. with Rust and how it relegates any automatic memory management to opt-in libraries.
So it seems to be a disagreement about what is really worthy of being called innovative, not any technical merit, as the comments that I'm talking about has not questioned that.
> From the article:
> "no, your experience with server-side programming does not adequately prepare you to “think small” and correctly reason about mobile performance."
Straw man, unless you somehow know that all of these people only have experience with server-side programming.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7898305
Red herring. aidanhs' reply was to someone who genuinely asked why garbage collection is problematic. The comments I'm talking about have not mentioned garbage collection, just questioning what innovative really is. I guess you then tried to infer that they thought that garbage collection vs. reference counting doesn't matter, i.e. isn't innovative? I find that to be an unfair inference. They might as well think that something like that has already been done/is being done, i.e. with Rust and how it relegates any automatic memory management to opt-in libraries.
So it seems to be a disagreement about what is really worthy of being called innovative, not any technical merit, as the comments that I'm talking about has not questioned that.
> From the article:
> "no, your experience with server-side programming does not adequately prepare you to “think small” and correctly reason about mobile performance."
Straw man, unless you somehow know that all of these people only have experience with server-side programming.