Smart pointers instead of GC?

[Frank Bauer]

On Monday, 3 February 2014 at 15:09:08 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
> It's pure laziness. That is the hole point of AGC, right? So you
> don't have to pay attention to what you are doing.

Well, aren't we all programmers because we are lazy? Othherwise 
we would be moving physical stuff around ;)

Certainly, Walter, Andrei and the rest were anything but lazy. 
Quite the opposite. But considering what they accomplished 
already, maybe they decide to go that extra mile in the coming 
years.

I actually enjoy the comfort of a GC cleaning up after me, if I 
don't have critical stuff to do. Other than that, you are right: 
if you know what you do in your code and given powerful tools, 
you can accomplish more (performance).