Comment by antonvs
2 days ago
If you really believed that, you’d be programming in something like ATS, Idris, or Spark Ada. The reason that (I’m guessing) you don’t is that it takes a lot more effort to write general purpose code in those languages.
Rust is pretty much state of the art in this area for general-purpose, non-GC programming languages, and people still complain about the effort involved in writing memory-safe code with it.
If you really want complete memory safety, use a garbage collected language.
I program mostly in Rust, Haskell and Python nowadays. I indeed would love to go gc-less dependently typed. But I work in a team where the code I build is expected to be maintained by other devs. And going that route is unfortunately not tenable.
Additionally, there are plenty of garbage collected languages with support for doing low level stuff, or RAII, when it is really required.