Not mentioned in this article is one thing that goes very well with GC is async/await

I am a async/await hater for personal Idiosyncratic style reasons that I will not bore you with

I use it a lot in Type/Java script. Have done so in Dart. Works as it should

I have used it in Rust. IMO it is a disaster there. Shoehorning the sort of memory management required to use asyc/await with a multi threaded runtime is a hellscape

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/pin/index.html