> no. GC pauses turn any serious systems work into hell.

did you miss the context I was responding to? They were comparing against JS & Python and rapid iteration speeds. That's obviously not "serious systems work" where GC pauses matter

> this does not exclude the possibility of creation of libraries that manage everything for me within their domain of responsibility, such as dvui

Sure, but if you're philosophically okay with hidden allocations and control flow, why not just choose a language that doesn't compromise itself for those ideals in the first place?