dthul's comment [0] covers my point of view fairly well. Clones and new are easy to spot, you might not be careful about them because you do not care or have ot

dthul's comment [0] covers my point of view fairly well. Clones and new are easy to spot, you might not be careful about them because you do not care or have other priority but you can find/grep them quickly: they are explicit. Meanwhile C++ has a lot of implicit memory allocation and things that might or might not allocate. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061235