Meh, GC has its uses. It helps that the vast majority of resources are indeed memory, so it makes sense to special-case. Although in some situations it isn't a

Meh, GC has its uses. It helps that the vast majority of resources are indeed memory, so it makes sense to special-case. Although in some situations it isn't acceptable and it's interesting to look at what languages like Rust do about it. It ends up guaranteeing safety, but with not much more effort than GC.