i agree with you that garbage collected languages are bad for systems programming but it's not because garbage collection is inherently bad, it's because gc doesn't handle freeing resources other than memory. for better or worse i've spent most of my professional career writing databases in java and i will not start a database product in java or any other garbage collected language again. getting the error handling and resource cleanup right is way harder in java or go than c++ or rust because raii is the only sane way to do it.