I beg to differ. Observe long threads like this one (which I started) https://esdiscuss.org/topic/what-is-the-status-of-weak-references https://esdiscuss.org/to

I beg to differ. Observe long threads like this one (which I started) https://esdiscuss.org/topic/what-is-the-status-of-weak-references https://esdiscuss.org/topic/what-is-the-status-of-weak-refer... It was not the only one, it crops back up periodically and the purpose/nuances of weakrefs have to be re-explained each time. To be fair, there are a lot of subtleties involved...