What he said is that the goal should be that developers need not handle memory manually. GC is one technique to achieve that goal, and the one that has been th

What he said is that the goal should be that developers need not handle memory manually. GC is one technique to achieve that goal, and the one that has been the most successful so far, however we should not equate automatic memory management and garbage collection: other techniques could offer an as good or even better experience if we took the time to explore, develop, and refine them.