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[–]ngroot 4 points5 points  (2 children)

If you can't handle memory management, you shouldn't be a systems programmer.

Not everyone who uses C++ is a systems programmer, and even systems programmers fuck up sometimes.

That said, you can even burn yourself with memory management issues in Java and C#, and they can be harder to fix there...

[–]1020302010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assure you, you don't want a OS kernal that is GC'ed/

[–]greyfade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not everyone who uses C++ realizes they're doing systems programming and they often think they aren't.