[tibbetts]

Exactly. Developing GC aware code is still easier and safer than c++ memory management. Particularly because when you screw up in c++ you get crashes or data loss, and when you screw up in Java you mostly just get GC pauses.

[MaxBarraclough]

Mandatory mention of D and its @nogc feature (as it sounds, a compile-time guarantee that a function doesn't allocate on the garbage-collected heap)

https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/16/life-in-the-fast-lane/