[Gibbon1]

The difference is, you can write perfectly usable programs in C without littering the codebase with malloc() and free().

[pjmlp]

Just like you can in Go, as proven by TinyGo.

Or in dozen of other GC enabled systems programming languages for that matter.

[Gibbon1]

Tip: Give up dude.

[pjmlp]

Exactly my tip to the anti-GC luddites.

The difference being evolution, takes care of sorting that out, like in all anti-technology groups throughout mankind history.