Not everyone wants GC either, so the mix of feelings must have been complex. I didn't much follow these kind of holy wars, but I've seen people leave Java part

Not everyone wants GC either, so the mix of feelings must have been complex. I didn't much follow these kind of holy wars, but I've seen people leave Java partly to get away from GC, same as people in the Objective C community being pretty happy to get ARC instead of heavier GC systems.