My experience with GC on Android is that it's nice when it works, but when you have to optimize you're screwed. I'd rather have a system like in Swift where the

My experience with GC on Android is that it's nice when it works, but when you have to optimize you're screwed. I'd rather have a system like in Swift where the destruction of objects is deterministic. deinit can take care of releasing resources in time. C++ offers the most flexibility, and using containers and smart pointers makes code that doesn't care much about memory look quite decent too. I have to admit that Swift makes it a breeze though, you don't have as much overhead in thinking about memory management.