Is Julia good for game development?

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Right, if a game is latency sensitive or creates a lot of garbage then GC pauses could be an issue. People have used Julia for realtime control of robots which is even more demanding, so low latency is possible. I think they had to pay a lot of attention to avoiding allocation though.

Link to timestamp discussing the problems faced by robotics user (2018) with 1-millisecond cycle time:

JuliaRobotics: Making robots walk with Julia | Robin Deits

At 37:00 he says it would be much easier to debug memory management issues if there were a macro that disallows allocations in its context, turning allocation into error. At ~39:00, Jeff responds positively to this suggestion. Is this macro possible now?