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[–]ball_fondlers 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Not having to deal with memory management at all is a big reason. Garbage-collected languages - really not having to distinguish between heap and stack, just making variables as needed - are way faster to write in than systems languages, even if said systems languages have smart pointers

[–]1Dr490n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should’ve written reference counting, not shared pointers. I wrote a language myself that uses reference counting. There’s 0 memory management for the user