Feedback from the Gripes and Wishes Campaign

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Sunday, 28 May 2023 at 07:02:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/27/2023 6:40 PM, Steven Schveighoffer w
>> In any case, migrating `malloc` calls to `new` and ignoring 
>> `free` should still be fine in this case.
>
> That's how dmd used to operate, but people ran out of memory.

I never quite liked the reasoning that leaking is fine because 
its just a batch program.

I see teardown as an important part of a program. Relying on the 
OS to do it for you will likely come back to bite you at some 
point.