At least reference-counting is typically considered a form of garbage collection (e.g. using Rc<> or Arc<> in Rust, or std::shared_pointer in C++). Arguably, RA

At least reference-counting is typically considered a form of garbage collection (e.g. using Rc<> or Arc<> in Rust, or std::shared_pointer in C++). Arguably, RAII calling destruction code at the end of a scope could also be considered garbage collection, the garbage is just very short lived ;) I guess 'automatic memory management' is the less controversial term which covers both traditional GC and RAII, the downsides are very similar though.