http://golang.org/

Have you programmed in Google's GO programming language by Google today?

Their Hello World is weeaboo!! It must be good!

For what reason exactly do people dislike the concept of a garbage collector? is the dependency on pointers that strong?

Go language looks interesting.  I'm rather uncomfortable with its weak enforcement of a standard statement termination (sometimes ';', sometimes not) but that's nitpicking.  If I had the free time I'd take to learning its grammar.