[joppy]

Right, but then you take on a bunch of baggage you don’t have in a GC setting. For instance if you want to make zillions of these objects and delete them you are paying overhead for lots of allocations and deallocations made heavier by the reference counting. You pay time overhead for atomic increment/decrement, and if there are cyclic structures then you pay a big price in the code complexity to deal with them properly and not cause memory leaks.