Why many programmers don't like GC?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 11:11:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
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> That's the whole point of being able to mix and match. Anyone 
> avoiding the GC completely is missing it (unless they really, 
> really, must be GC-less).

+1
mix and match is a different style versus only having a GC, or 
only having lifetimes for everything. And it's quite awesome as a 
style, since half of things don't need a well-identified owner.