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		pjmlp 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go 1.24 This is Go, yet add again, catching up to the lessons learned by the other programming language communities. As you point out, finalizers are no longer in good grace in Java, not even in .NET, but lets leave that for another thread. Hence why they are deprecated since Java 9, released in 2017, and a Cleaner queue should be used instead, or try-with-resources. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/lang/Object.h... Basically runtime.AddCleanup() is the Go's version of java.lang.ref.Cleaner::register().

pigeonhole123 5 months ago | [–]

It would be better if they didn't learn from the others

Cthulhu_ 5 months ago | | [–]

Can you explain? Because if you don't learn from others you're cursed to repeat the same mistakes. I like to mention Java's generics implementation making up half the language spec and compiler.

anacrolix 5 months ago | [–]

"We're special. Hmm, okay that didn't work". Every Go feature.

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