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Having been part of the community, but with experience in many other languages another common trait seem to be ignoring that many other languages also have features for writing cache friendly code just like C++, while being safer.

A good example is Modula-3, a systems programing language that while it does have GC by default, also allows for global and stack allocation, value types, bit and structure packing and if really necessary naked pointers (only allowed in unsafe modules).

Or Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC with its mix of RC/GC, which is basically the same as C++ _ptr<>() + deferred_ptr<>() just implemented at the language level.

Same applies to RAII, yes it was a very good invention in C++, but many other languages do offer good ways of doing resource management, for example bracket in Haskell or withResource in others.