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is this attitude serious? allocating memory manually is better for simple programs with a team of maybe 2 or 3 people. but once you get up to larger teams with bigger programs, garbage collection is faster than doing by hand. this has been proven over and over again.
managing state in your head is even worse than managing memory. it adds unnecessary complexity that makes the system less stable and less extensible. you should really read the humble programmer. if turing award winners can not effectively manage state in their hand, then i dont think you can. it leads to code that is untenable.
actor based models are the future of computation. we have about 2 generations of cpus before they cap out. we have more information in our hands than ever before, and if we want to make sense of it then we need to be able to run software on 1000+ machines with 100+ cores each.
i have yet to see a great programming mind say that garbage collection and stm are not useful.