That's all true. But at some point if you really need to avoid GC, you end up writing in a subset of C# that is so limited, it's really just C. Most people don

That's all true. But at some point if you really need to avoid GC, you end up writing in a subset of C# that is so limited, it's really just C. Most people don't have those kinds of performance considerations. I use C# for soft realtime all the time, but in the instances when I have done actual realtime embedded work, I just used C.