I wasn't just talking about memory leaks. Memory allocation in C is a rich source of bugs. Even assuming they are "easy to fix", that's still a poor second to "

I wasn't just talking about memory leaks. Memory allocation in C is a rich source of bugs. Even assuming they are "easy to fix", that's still a poor second to "never happened in the first place". GC isn't free, sure, but it has definite advantages.