On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 14:54:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Garbage collection has proved to be a smashing success in the industry, providing productivity and memory-safety to programmers of all skill levels.
Citation needed on how garbage collection has been a smashing success based on its merits rather than the merits of the languages that use garbage collection. Python was also a smashing success, but it doesn't use a garbage collector in it's default implementation (CPython). Unless you mean garbage collection as in "not manual memory management"? But that still might not be as simple, because RAII would fall somewhere inbetween.
