Well, you can't always know the lifetime of an object until runtime, especially in multithreaded situations. There are plenty of reasons to want to work on bein

Well, you can't always know the lifetime of an object until runtime, especially in multithreaded situations. There are plenty of reasons to want to work on being able to determine object lifetimes at compile time, but I don't think that work would actually replace what a GC would give you. I think the future will likely be some combination of both.