[nihsett]

That's true. GC and manual are the two ends of the spectrum with other options in between like Rust. By catastrophic mistakes I mean security vulnerabilities created by memory safety related mistakes.

Maybe it's just me but I cannot write a huge program in rust as easily as I can in Java or Python. I have to spend more effort bending my program to fit the language and it's semantics. I get safety and speed but it feel like I'm wearing a straitjacket for those gains paying in my time and productivity.

Sometimes that tradeoff makes sense, but if I'm writing a backend webserver or some other application why would I bother with all this effort. Just doesn't make sense to me.