I'm kind of surprised they didn't try to get rid of/adapt the standard for C++/CLI on Windows since it actually uses GC for a lot of things. However, I guess th

I'm kind of surprised they didn't try to get rid of/adapt the standard for C++/CLI on Windows since it actually uses GC for a lot of things. However, I guess the standard wasn't all that useful, especially since it mandated a lot of overhead for pointer arithmetic. My theory is that it is very difficult to come up with a general API for interacting with GC'd memory in C++ because making the API efficient depends heavily on how it is implemented.