I've only ran into an issue with JavaScript's garbage collection once in six years, and the problem was solved by carefully looking at my code and changing how

I've only ran into an issue with JavaScript's garbage collection once in six years, and the problem was solved by carefully looking at my code and changing how I created images. Completely avoiding Javascript because of garbage collection is ridiculous given its other very useful things. I've written functional JS before and it's nowhere near as hard as this article pretends that it is.