Java Sucks: "Here is the story of a poor soul who just needs to display 200 labels. And what does Java do, allocate 40 megabytes and never free it, naturally.

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The funny thing is, garbage collection works very well in many other languages, such as C#, Python, and Lisp. What is it about Java that makes garbage collection so consistently suck across all platforms, virtual machines, and compilers?"