Unless you’re making a large or complex game, I doubt it will matter. Remember that Minecraft was written in a garbage collected language (although its possible

Unless you’re making a large or complex game, I doubt it will matter. Remember that Minecraft was written in a garbage collected language (although its possible they carefully do object pooling, I’m not sure they did in the early days). On your second point, some people dynamically recompile C++ too! I guess that code maybe is designed for fast compiling. Many other people use an embedded language like Lua for fast iterations.