>C# and Java and strongly typed, have a lot of static information. They may have a lot of information, but they don't have the static information required to g

>C# and Java and strongly typed, have a lot of static information. They may have a lot of information, but they don't have the static information required to generate reference counted COM. It's information about the lifetimes and ownership of objects. >I think the main reason why it’s impossible to reliably recompile these languages into non-gc code — circular references. Exactly. The information to resolve those is missing. >Depends on use case. This was a debate about Microsoft's decision not to build Windows userland on top of .NET after all. So it would have affected all use cases of all Windows developers.