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Sure, even Java lets you manually allocate memory via JNI, but negligible amounts of code written in those languages actually uses manual management. Reference

by gok 8y ago

Sure, even Java lets you manually allocate memory via JNI, but negligible amounts of code written in those languages actually uses manual management. Reference counting is uncompetitive in those languages because idiomatic Java/C#/Go make lots of allocations and pass around lots of pointers with no lifetime semantics.

pjmlp 8y ago
I can also code in C with malloc()/free() everywhere. The features are available, it is up to the programmers to use them
- gok 8y ago
  But (a) that's not idiomatic (b) malloc/free aren't refcounted.