thats not a different way of doing same thing, its doing different thing. this not even an argument, if language can provide multiple memory management strategies, in what world is that a bad thing?
and if you somehow confused about choice (of gc), you should stick to default.
also, there is no such thing as "There is Only One Way to Do It" languages. your entire argument is just a circlejerk point.
he is not trying to sell/convince you to learn gtk. he is warning if you already want to learn it. not everything posted on hn should be a promotion material.