I get the value of garbage collectors, but honestly until Go I wasn't too fond of them, as I'd find myself spending about as much time thinking about memory management in Java as in C. At least with C you don't have the same lack of determinism as you do with traditional GC languages.

I find recent language trends interesting. Moving away from VMs to native binaries, away from Java-style GCs and embracing ARC and smart pointers. I have a strong bias toward minimalism, so I like the trend. If it serves to remind people that CPU time and memory, while incredibly cheap, isn't free, then all the better.