We’ll start with the perils of memory management in languages like C and C++, which do not use garbage collection. ... Java, Scala, Python, and .NET/C# are all popular GC languages.

That said, class loading isn’t the epic brain-teaser that (say) portable runtime memory management is, so the techniques are comparatively simple. Every Java virtual machine includes a class loader.

Open-source language Python is already one of the most popular programming languages among developers. It ranks in third place behind mainstays Java and C, according to programming language index ...