Or the many other GC'd languages game devs might like to use: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, Clojure ... Yes, it is unfortunate we can't use those languages

Or the many other GC'd languages game devs might like to use: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, Clojure ... Yes, it is unfortunate we can't use those languages and achieve the same performance as manual memory management in C/C++.