Meh. Locking is going to be a requirement if you have mutable shared state. Whether it's threads or events that are driving it, the possible classes of problems

Meh. Locking is going to be a requirement if you have mutable shared state. Whether it's threads or events that are driving it, the possible classes of problems look almost identical. Merely having a drawback doesn't make something bad. So garbage collection cannot run destructors deterministically. That is indeed unfortunate but it in no way outweighs the benefits -- for example, that the vast majority of classes which don't hold these kinds of resources can just be discarded and forgotten. It's kind of a stupid thing to say that this alone makes them bad. It would be like if I said, "Feet suck because they can step on nails." Wait, that's not quite right.