I realised (thanks to the other poster) that my comment may have seemed dismissive, which was not my intent. Just marvelling at it myself :-) But I do wonder

I realised (thanks to the other poster) that my comment may have seemed dismissive, which was not my intent. Just marvelling at it myself :-) But I do wonder about this kind of stuff. I have been wrestling with some legacy systems chewing up gobs and gobs of memory lately. Then wrestling with my own code that was chewing up gobs and gobs of memory :-) It's pretty easy to make mistakes because we don't really get punished, as you say. But I wonder if we might be doing ourselves a disservice by not restricting ourselves. Generally speaking, better code is better and while it often feels slower to write, my experience has been that it doesn't always work out that way. I might try working in a memory restricted container to see if it improves my code...