You seriously should just start the discussion by actually checking out how garbage collection actually works instead of touting random garbage about how it is

You seriously should just start the discussion by actually checking out how garbage collection actually works instead of touting random garbage about how it is just a predictions game. Garbage collection has multiple variations, multiple optimizations, multiple tradeoffs. Different variations are powering the most popular and the most used languages all around the world (see also: C#, Javascript, Java). To think that that is just "research thrown at a bad problem" is sheer insanity. I propose we split this discussion up, because dealing with leaks is a completely different problem than dealing with garbage collection. You can have memory leaks in manually managed languages too, it has nothing to do with GC. But lets not throw the whole field out just because you do not want to deal with automatic memory management tradeoffs.