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>I really dislike javascript, it is so loose that I marvel that people are able to write big chunks of software in it. I have no interest in trying.

Because they use Typescript.

>The stop-the-world garbage collection is a big pain for games

There is a number of languages that allow manual memory management: Zig, Nim, Rust and few others



> There is a number of languages that allow manual memory management: ... Nim

Nim not only has support for manual memory management, but there're several gc modes that are not stop-the-world.

Also, since Nim 2, the stdlib now is using ARC by default, which is deterministic and has advantages over conventional garbage collection.




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