So it's possible my airplane might fall out of the sky because there is not enough memory because not enough time was devoted to garbage collection? That doesn'

So it's possible my airplane might fall out of the sky because there is not enough memory because not enough time was devoted to garbage collection? That doesn't sound like a great solution. Not to say that C is necessarily the ideal solution. The main reason the author hasn't seen competitors to C is because the author didn't look for one. Vala is decent and there are many others, they're just not sufficiently better than C to result in people switching.