[antonvs]

If you really believed that, you’d be programming in something like ATS, Idris, or Spark Ada. The reason that (I’m guessing) you don’t is that it takes a lot more effort to write general purpose code in those languages.

Rust is pretty much state of the art in this area for general-purpose, non-GC programming languages, and people still complain about the effort involved in writing memory-safe code with it.

If you really want complete memory safety, use a garbage collected language.

[rowanG077]

I program mostly in Rust, Haskell and Python nowadays. I indeed would love to go gc-less dependently typed. But I work in a team where the code I build is expected to be maintained by other devs. And going that route is unfortunately not tenable.

[pjmlp]

Additionally, there are plenty of garbage collected languages with support for doing low level stuff, or RAII, when it is really required.