Comment by verdagon

This article was mainly about memory safety approaches (GC, RC, borrow checking, etc) and their effects on development velocity. It wasn't trying to compare all languages along all dimensions. That would be quite a long article!

Anyway, I think you're referring to `defer`? Though perhaps you're referring to something else, as defer also appears in non-GC'd languages as well so it didn't seem like a very relevant factor in this specific comparison. I do agree that defer (and try-with-resources) can be stellar tools for GC'd languages.