That's different from "I do not want a disabled GC baked into my program." It is relevant, especially to embedded coding with its ornery size restrictions.

In embedded environments the GC is fundamentally different to a large RAM machine. There a simple boehm-gc is enough and still faster, safer and smaller than refcounting. It can be made incremental.

On big machines a copying collector with a nursery is much faster and safer if you can deal with the pauses.

Memory safety is still an issue I heard.