Right, but you said
> there will no longer be any reason to use any other garbage-collected language.
(emphasis mine). I was just curious as to why you specified garbage collected there.
> there will no longer be any reason to use any other garbage-collected language.
(emphasis mine). I was just curious as to why you specified garbage collected there.
However, like these other garbage-collected languages, Julia is unlikely to ever compete with the likes of Zig, Rust, C++, etc. which produce even smaller static binaries since they don't have to ship a GC runtime. That's why I specified garbage-collected languages as, in my opinion, the addition of proper static compilation will allow Julia to completely supersede other garbage-collected general programming languages but not manually managed systems programming languages.
I think with StaticCompiler.jl, if you create a binary where the compiled code knows there won't be any GC, for instance, say you only ever work with Tuples and floating point numbers, I don't think there will be any GC runtime in the compiled binary.
I could be wrong about this though.
Kind of besides the point, though, because the GC is probably not heavy anyway. Lots of fear of GC is not based on benchmarks.