If you're familiar with the JVM's "escape analysis" then it is at least possible to write allocation-free code. But keeping a mental model of the JIT's optimize

If you're familiar with the JVM's "escape analysis" then it is at least possible to write allocation-free code. But keeping a mental model of the JIT's optimizer in your head does not make for fun or easy programming. It's so much nicer to work with value types such as those found in C#.