My first 8-9 years was full of very competitive, bleeding edge C++ and I can tell for sure that your productivity increase was not caused by garbage collection,

My first 8-9 years was full of very competitive, bleeding edge C++ and I can tell for sure that your productivity increase was not caused by garbage collection, but by using a more orthogonal language. I feel it in delphi the same way I feel it in go and python.