Same. And so struck was I by the writing and the story I scanned that I went back and read it aloud in an effort to get as much out of it as I good.

These gems are treasures.

FWIW, I thought it was about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)

I was a Cairo or so further out of date than you were. :-)

In CAIRO, there's no garbage collector. It's reference counted.

If you look up "garbage collection" on Wikipedia, you get this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_collection

and it says:

>"Garbage collection" redirects here. For the automatic memory management technique, see Garbage collection (computer science). For other uses, see Garbage collection (disambiguation).

You can almost hear the eyeroll directed at programmers :-p

At least it wasn't a trash collector in Jakarta. That would have been really confusing.

I actually had the reverse.

The first time I saw the article in the list I interpreted it correctly. And then this time I decided to click on the comments and found myself wondering whether it was some clever wordplay about the graphics library.

... funny. My first thought was actually Egypt and actual garbage because of how absurd a leap it would be, then figured it must be Cairo the OS or some other more likely Cairo.

Yeah, I was thinking this was some programming language I had never heard of. I was expecting a deep dive of compiler internals.

that was my first thought, then i did a double take and realised what they were talking about.

Yeah, Cairo nd Garbage Collector. Who will not imagine that?