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>Try doing C with a garbage collector ... it's very liberating.

Doing that means that I lose some speed and I will have to wait for GC collection.

Then why shouldn't I use C# which is more productive and has libraries and frameworks that comes with batteries included that help me build functionality fast.

I thought that one of the main points of using C is speed.

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Every time I've tried it, adding GC to a C program makes it faster. It will increase the RAM usage by a bit, and exactly when pauses happen is less predictable (unless you explicitly trigger a GC in e.g. your main loop), and possibly individual pauses larger, but overall program execution time -- throughput -- increases.

Malloc() and free() aren't free, and in particular free() does a lot more bookkeeping and takes more time than people realise.

C# has disgusting code style. IWillNotReadCode where variable or (and thats even worse) function/method names LookLikeThis.

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