> I personally am not a fan since the lack of garbage collection means that there are situations that require lots of tedious and error prone boilerplate code j

> I personally am not a fan since the lack of garbage collection means that there are situations that require lots of tedious and error prone boilerplate code just to ensure that all resources are cleaned up. The problem is memory isn't the only resource that needs to get cleaned up, and at least in Java, when a variable falls out of scope resources such as database connections, opened files, etc, will not instantly be cleaned up. However, with c++, as long as you're using RAII (and if you're not, why aren't you?), all a resource has to do is fall out of scope to clean it up. RAII is certainly cleaner and less tedious than anything I've seen in Java and C#.