Originally posted by indiocolifa
With managed code , the cleaning of memory resources that the programmer allocates is done automatically by the OS (or a underlying framework such as NET). Imagine not using anymore delete[] and avoiding many (almost all) memory leaks.
But wouldn't that significantly reduce the programmer's level of control over the software that he's writing?

And what about stuff like OpenGL? Won't that become less useful, since much of that syntax is very similar to that of WinAPI?