[LosWochosWeek]

> I'd rather not rely on promises that GC works great, or is very tunable.

I'm always puzzled by statements like these. What else do you want to rely on? The best answer I can think of is "The promise that my own code will work better", but even then: I don't trust my own code, my past self has let me down too many times. The promise that code from my colleagues will do better than GC? God forbid.

It's not like not having a GC means that you're reducing the surface area. You're not. What you're doing is taking on the responsibility of the GC and gambling on the fact that you'll do the things it does better.

The only thing that I can think of that manually memory managed languages offer vs GC languages is the fact that you can "fix locally". But then again, you're fixing problems created by yourself or your colleagues.