Simplicity of a programming language, and simplicity of programs written in it are two very different beasts.<p>I understand funny things happening under the hood (garbage collection) might not look attractive ; However you can&#x27;t require everything to be explicit and, at the same time, keep your programs simple&#x2F;small.<p>The more you want your code to be small, the more you&#x27;re gonna need a programming environment (language&#x2F;API&#x2F;runtime&#x2F;framework) doing things for you under the hood. And there&#x27;s nothing wrong about it!