> Nonsense! Why would you waste any resources on infrastructure when you could use them for applications. Every cycle that your garbage collector runs is a cycle that the cpu could have been sleeping and saving battery life. This concept that we don't need to care about resources anymore is absolute poppycock.

It isn't that simple. Depending on your program it can actually be slower to do manual memory management. malloc isn't free. In some cases allocating memory and performing GC is actually faster.

It's not that we don't have to care about resources at all just that we can sacrifice some of the resources to improve the situation for users and programmers. If that isn't your thing then feel free to write everything in assembly.