Getting completely (I mean ENTIRELY) rid off GC

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:55:43 UTC, Andrey Lifanov 
wrote:
> Everyone tells about greatness and safety of GC, and that it is 
> hard to live without it... But, I suppose, you all do know the 
> one programming language in which 95% of AAA-quality popular 
> desktop software and OS is written. And this language is C/C++.
>
> How do you explain this? Just because we are stubborn and silly 
> people, we use terrible old C++? No. The real answer: there is 
> no alternative.
>
> Stop telling fairy tales that there is not possible to program 
> safe in C++. Every experienced programmer can easily handle 
> parallel programming and memory management in C++. Yes, it 
> requires certain work and knowledge, but it is possible, and 
> many of us do it on the everyday basis (on my current work we 
> use reference counting, though the overall quality of code is 
> terrible, I must admit).

You mean safe like openssl, gnutls or apple's one ?