I agree with your criticism, many times developers of managed platforms (Java, .NET and even the less complex GCs like Ruby) forget that memory needs to be allo

I agree with your criticism, many times developers of managed platforms (Java, .NET and even the less complex GCs like Ruby) forget that memory needs to be allocated and deallocated. Often we think the magic memory fairy is going to make everything OK, it is easy to fall in this trap even if you understand the underlying concepts, this is clearly not the case at high scale.