&quot;To create a garbage collector for the next decade, we turned to an algorithm from decades ago. Go&#x27;s new garbage collector is a concurrent, tri-color, mark-sweep collector, an idea first proposed by Dijkstra in 1978.&quot;<p>So, the best GC for the next decade was proposed in 1978. Whatever computer scientists have proposed since then apparently hasn&#x27;t been as good.... so they can all just pack it up and go home?<p>I&#x27;d be really really curious to hear from some academic computer scientists if the best that can be done was first proposed back then, and they&#x27;ve all just failed to find anything better since. Cause this is just downright depressing otherwise (If you actually want to believe that we&#x27;re making progress).