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Ross • Edited

Like OP said, the arrow is pointing at the zombie indicating that it IS the garbage collector.

It's because the garbage collector is (historically) unpredictable, slow and picks off objects that have fallen behind your object tree. Like a zombie.

Anyone claiming java or its user are zombies are always people who've jumped on some new language that hasn't died on its arse yet :P