This article has a hint of &quot;C-style memory management is good for you&quot;—implying that you might want to write in something like JS and then go back and write in C++ in order to &quot;tighten the screws&quot;. I think that&#x27;s wrong—by and large, it&#x27;s been a very good thing that people have stopped caring about memory management in production. That&#x27;s because correct C-style memory management never† scales up to large software projects in a way that doesn&#x27;t result in crashes and, worse, vulnerabilities.<p>So, yes, we&#x27;ve traded performance for automatic memory management. But we&#x27;ve gained reliability, safety, and security. For the vast majority of server-side apps, that&#x27;s a worthwhile trade.<p>† Unless you use the processes like NASA and the like use, which for most apps are infeasible from a cost point of view.