> What counts as a garbage language?

I assume it's one with GC.

Wouldn't it be one without gc? Gc collects the garbage and disposes of it, whereas in other languages it just piles up :D

Java person here. Yeah, Go looks a bit crufty, but they're gradually undoing the earlier opinionated choices that make me think that (Who needs generics? Who needs to tune the GC? Oh, our users do), but nah, we mainly hate on Scala when we have to maintain anything with Scala deps, just that damn ABI that's never compatible.

I was sure reading your first post that you will propose rust. Rust users never cease to amaze me.

I'm not a "rust user" any more than I'm a java user (less, in fact). Your heuristic is probably picking up on the fact that people who pay attention to things like this tend to have correlated opinions.

To be fair there was also a significant chance he would think Rust was garbage and only assembly (or if you are lucky, C) are acceptable languages.

You still don't know how to spot them :). The borrow checker is a great invention, but for them it's the holy grail that will save us from bugs. Like in the past people thought that GC was the solution to every problems. Youngsters must learn, we have to be patient.