Why many programmers don't like GC?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 21:56:58 UTC, mw wrote:
> I think this flexibility to mix GC & manual memory management 
> is very unique in D. Actually I'm not sure if it can be done in 
> other languages at all.

It sure can. Most AOT languages that provide GC also provide 
C-interfaces and manual memory management. C++ also had the 
Boehm-collector since the 90s. Chrome uses Oilpan, a 
library-style GC with write barriers and incremental collection.