>>I see all this bloated slow software everywhere that pauses all the time and it is hard not to see "I've never done memory management" as part of the cause.

>>I see all this bloated slow software everywhere that pauses all the time and it is hard not to see "I've never done memory management" as part of the cause. There's no way your ordinary programmer would have done memory management better than the GC options available with something like the JVM. This is in fact Java/Python/Perl exist in the first place. Slow software is better than software that crashes often.