> In our experience, doing manual memory allocation and chasing potential memory leaks takes less effort than trying to optimize memory usage in a language with

> In our experience, doing manual memory allocation and chasing potential memory leaks takes less effort than trying to optimize memory usage in a language with garbage collection They're generalising from the garbage collectors they know to all languages with garbage collectors. Go's GC is particularly crude, and great advances in GC technology have been made in recent years. E.g. take a look at the state of the G1 and ZGC collectors in OpenJDK 15/16.