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Subject: Re: What about garbage collection?
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That's an interesting topic.

Funnily Microsoft is discovering *right now* that GC and heap allocation can be better sometimes replaced by stack allocation:

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/05/CSharp-7.3

  int* block = stackalloc int[3] { 1, 2, 3 };

which has been already be possible since Pascal in the early 1970's (without initialization). Ada does like that with initialization:

  block: array(1..3) of Integer := (1, 2, 3);

... and further with unconstrained types (bounds not known at compile-time).