Getting completely (I mean ENTIRELY) rid off GC

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:55:43 UTC, Andrey Lifanov 
wrote:
> Every experienced programmer can easily handle parallel 
> programming and memory management in C++.

Eliminate "parallel programming" from that statement and I could 
be convinced to believe you, though after years of diagnosing 
bugs that almost invariably tied back to dangling pointer issues, 
even that would be a hard sell.  But even for programmers who 
really have this stuff down... how much of your code and your 
mental energy with C++ is spent on memory ownership rules?  Is it 
really a productive use of your time?  Does the program 
materially benefit from the design required to make it safe, 
correct, and self-documenting with respect to memory ownership 
and data lifetime?  Are smart pointers really that pleasant to 
work with?