You could do that, but if you are using RAII, then GC has lost a lot of its value. It is incorrect to access an object after its destructor has executed, so you

You could do that, but if you are using RAII, then GC has lost a lot of its value. It is incorrect to access an object after its destructor has executed, so you might as well release its heap resources then and ditch the whole complicated GC. I suppose in theory you could use GC just for objects that (transitively) don't hold any non-heap resources. But that gets a little weird as if you ever device that you need to stick a non-heap resource in there, suddenly all your code needs to change. (Of course, this is already generally the case in GC languages...)