> No program language I am aware of (and I don't claim to know all) are good at saying "GC this 5%, I'll explicitly handle everything else" I haven't used rust

> No program language I am aware of (and I don't claim to know all) are good at saying "GC this 5%, I'll explicitly handle everything else" I haven't used rust in production, but I think it allows you to do precisely this, using the following crate: https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc. > Of course, there is an argument that just GCing everything is as efficient as bothering with manual memory management I specifically said that it should be possible to mix GC with other types of memory management. The problem is that I often hear from C++ crowd "GC is bad, mmkay!", without mentioning that there are specific cases where you have to use/implement GC.