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Be nice to your garbage collector. Don't leave references to objects that are not needed. Once they are done, and the scope is going to remain, null them.



is this a reference to the 2019 talk, or are you being serious (in which case, could you please share a couple references)?

context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocUx-QUJMfo&t=630s


Why not just write C, then? Sounds like you're just setting up for NPEs


Or use a language that does it automatically, like Clojure




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