[easytiger]

> without any real improvements (aside from GC).

You've really gone down the rabbit hole if you think GC is an improvment

[nonsince]

Automatic memory management is an improvement. I prefer region-based memory management to GC but a GC is a godsend in, for example, dynamic languages where you don't want any restrictions, or functional programming where you're pretending to program for a machine with infinite memory.

[easytiger]

It is certainly not an improvement for a systems language