I think the relative popularity of managed memory languages has grown and continues to grow. Even C++ is largely "managed" via mechanisms like unique_ptr, shar

I think the relative popularity of managed memory languages has grown and continues to grow. Even C++ is largely "managed" via mechanisms like unique_ptr, shared_ptr, or the standard collections. (Using new/delete directly is more or less a code smell these days.) C will always have a place, but despite working in it from 2011-2021 or so, I just don't use it at all these days. With "owned" allocations, you just don't need explicit free(). You're more likely to see memory leaks via unbounded collection size than actual unreferenced pointers.