> No, it's not. Garbage collection and reference counting are "automatic memory management. In strict computer science parlance, refcounting is a kind of GC, b

> No, it's not. Garbage collection and reference counting are "automatic memory management. In strict computer science parlance, refcounting is a kind of GC, but to most people GC refers to "tracing GC" specifically. It's fairly pedantic. > In a garbage collected language you need to explicitly release your resources. I assume "resources" here must mean "non-memory resources"? Even still, GC can apply to any kind of resource, it's just most popularly applied to memory (you could have a GC for file handles, for example). Also, so you know, the user you're replying to knows a thing or two about programming languages.