Everyone tells about greatness and safety of GC, and that it is
hard to live without it... But, I suppose, you all do know the
one programming language in which 95% of AAA-quality popular
desktop software and OS is written. And this language is C/C++.
How do you explain this? Just because we are stubborn and silly
people, we use terrible old C++? No. The real answer: there is no
alternative.
Stop telling fairy tales that there is not possible to program
safe in C++. Every experienced programmer can easily handle
parallel programming and memory management in C++. Yes, it
requires certain work and knowledge, but it is possible, and many
of us do it on the everyday basis (on my current work we use
reference counting, though the overall quality of code is
terrible, I must admit).
