[haberman]

C++ is an expert's language, no doubt about it. But wielded properly, it does deliver on its promise pretty well, especially with recent language evolution.

C++ lets you use a bump allocator if you want. malloc()/free() are just functions that you don't pay for unless you call them. That is the point! And as others have pointed out, many common data structures let you swap out the calls to malloc()/free() for something else if you want to.