Oh you're a real programmer because you use pointers.... Big man you are. Meanwhile I'm at home because I use a garbage collector and don't have any memory bugs.

Hmm. Sounds like you really have not had the pleasure of finding the limits of garbage collection yet.

Everything has its limits. I just choose to spend more time writing meaningful code rather than wasting everyone's time and money on useless scaffolding and reinventing the wheel

I only ever used raw pointers while doing my undergraduate work. Once I got a job, everything was inside a managed framework with garbage collection (.NET). I've only used pointers for some very specific challenges over at HackerRank, and then it's only smart pointers.

Pointers are actually damn powerful little things. C however isn't really meant for smartphone app or GUI > processing app. Garbage collection is fun (I love not to care about memory in Python at all), but there are use-cases when you just have to bite the bullet and learn how to work with them.

Also, have you ever wrote a device driver in a lang with garbage collector? :P

There are no "wheels" in software to be rewritten. Garbage collection isn't the end-all-be-all method of memory management. :)

Yeah, this statement does more to make you sound junior than anything else.

Golang for example uses garbage collection and also offers pointers.

The programming language called Nim allows for both GC and manual memory management.

@panzer-ragu you have lot to learn yet. Stop bashing things that you have no idea about .wat is the maximum that have u done with pointers other than just 'knowing wat a pointer is' . GC is an awesome concept itself. Have you heard of RAII if not then please go and study instead of bashing things down which u have no idea about. I have no intension of criticising anyone but sometimes it's just too much.

Don't blame your memory bugs on the language. Blame them on your lack of knowledge about RAII. Incompetent tool use it never the fault of the tools.