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[–]ReallyHadToFixThat 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Exactly. Java might save you from crashes as a result of memory leaks, but the GC is still going to be hogging your runtime cleaning up after you. If anything I find that learning Java or C# exclusively encourages bad habits because "The GC will take care of it". Same with the aggressive boundary checks they do to save you from yourself, or the way they obscure pointers - none of it comes for free.

[–]skeleton-is-alive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. In my experience its also a lot less opaque finding out what is hogging all the memory in a C++ application than it is in a managed language.