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I didn't say that. But if you think about memory then GC does more harm than good because you have no help from the language.

A GC is not the only fix for UAF and buffer overruns...

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Depends very much which programming languages we're talking about.

There are enough managed languages with knobs allowing to do C like coding when required to do so.

Which is about as convenient as opt-in types in python. Nice to have but but a poor substitute and requires much more diligence than if it was designed for it in the first place.

That really, really depends on the language.

It is perfectly convenient across D, Modula-2+, Modula-3, C#, Nim, Swift, Oberon, C++/CLI, and plenty others.

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