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Original Post: Why Java is Not My Favorite Language â Reason #73
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The garbage collector is not observable.
Every non-trivial application I have worked on, regardless of language, has had memory leaks. Even in garbage collected environments memory leaks happen. Given that, why would you design a GC’d language without providing observation hooks into the garbage collector? With Java your only, standard, option is ‘-verbose:gc’ [...]
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