> 1. garbage collection is amazing for developer productivity if you can afford it. Probably not for everybody. I haven't noticed any significant productivity

> 1. garbage collection is amazing for developer productivity if you can afford it. Probably not for everybody. I haven't noticed any significant productivity boost when coming from C++ to Java years back, and then I also can't see any significant productivity decrease when switching from Java to Rust. I feel the unavailability of GC is widely offset by other features that make Rust more productive than Java. Surely, I got stuck once or twice while learning (Rust is harder than Java) but once it clicked, I know which things to avoid and generally it goes very smoothly. Now there are many things I love about Rust and I constantly miss in Java. (The number of times I wished I had RAII in Java) > (The number of times I wished I had tracing GC in Rust).