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I've used tons of programs that have problems and crash for various reasons. Is this an argument against the language? I don't think there'd be any left to use with this line of thinking.

Besides, there's too many variables in your anecdote. Is it a laptop from 1995? Is the OOM from a bug that could/should be fixed?

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The notebook is from 2012 and has 4GB RAM. Minecraft stands out because most other programs of similar complexity (e.g. Portal 2) work fine.

I've heard a story that Minecraft's RAM consumption got a lot worse after Notch stepped down. The new developers refactored the code for OOP best practices (such as passing a 3D coordinate as an object rather than "int x, int y, int z"), which tremendously increased the number of allocations and thus GC pressure and memory usage. So it's fair IMO to blame this to a language. Having good practices lead to such consequences is terrible design.

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