I know I’m feeding a troll right now, but you haven’t shown that anyone here has learned anything the wrong way other than using the word GC in a different way

I know I’m feeding a troll right now, but you haven’t shown that anyone here has learned anything the wrong way other than using the word GC in a different way than the book you linked. Yes, refcounting is a kind of GC. Very nice, you’re very smart. But colloquially nearly everyone knows what everyone else is talking about when they say “this uses refcounting” or “that uses GC”. We all know what each other mean, you’re being incredibly tedious by correcting people’s use of a very common term. Basically: shut up, we get it.