> The truth is that we don't have the resources to write and maintain a > precise, compacting, threadsafe, parallel, generational and incremental > realtime GC.
Certainly Google has the resources . Do they have such a wonderful thing? And if not, why not? Because it is the elephant in the room. A garbage collector is more or less a workaround, but not a solution. I think memory safety without GC is a big selling point for every new programmin language.
