Rust shows that "between having GC pauses and having memory leak continuously (and buffer overflow issues which become security issues) I'll take GC pauses" is a false dichotomy, however.
Rust is one of the coolest things in programming at the moment, but if you have to invent your own programming language to cut this gordian knot, then it's not really a false dichotomy for most practical purposes. And it'll stay a genuine dichomoty until Rust (or something like it) is a mainstream choice.
I'm glad for the advances in Rust. My comment was meant in the context of the current state of the art (Java/C++ like). If we move forward enough the GC questions could be a thing of the past.