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ozim • yesterday at 4:49 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

  legacy .NET to .NET Core (which was renamed once again to .NET)
It was always .NET, only that new one had 1 till 4 had additional "Core" to clarify any confusion that could come from having same numbers as old.

  here's .NET's simplistic garbage collector ... it tries to be a one-fit-all solution that basically cannot be tweaked at all
Definitely tweaking GC is not a thing in .NET land but it is far from "cannot be tweaked at all".

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pregnenolone • yesterday at 9:04 PM

> It was always .NET

No, it was not. What's called .NET now used to be .NET Core. And then there's .NET Framework which was commonly known as .NET.

> "cannot be tweaked at all"

Are you serious? Not only does the JDK have multiple GCs for different use cases (Serial, Parallel, G1, ZGC, Shenandoah), they have very refined tuning settings (https://wiki.openjdk.org/spaces/zgc/pages/34668579/Main#Main... / https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/gctuning/garbage-f...). What does .NET let you do with the GC? Set the hard limit? Maybe turn on/off concurrent collection? That's not tuning, that's triviality.

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