It's true the original GC for .NET was amazingly bad, so much so that the project I was on at Microsoft deliberately used indexes into big arrays of structs (ra

It's true the original GC for .NET was amazingly bad, so much so that the project I was on at Microsoft deliberately used indexes into big arrays of structs (rather than real object references) for long-lived server state. But surely they've been working on it. GC even has the potential to be faster than manual heap management simply because any number of dead objects can be reclaimed in zero cycles. I don't understand why he's rejecting C and C++ as unsafe yet using Delphi. Doesn't that also have pointer arithmetic and casts and dangling references?