Why many programmers don't like GC?

[mw]

On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 00:15:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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.

ok, what I really mean is:

... in other "(more popular) languages (than D, and directly 
supported by the language & std library only)" ...