[nickelplate]

> "Why running with one leg is great" - written by someone who run each days with one leg.

He is not saying that C++ is great. In fact he mentions several issues that bother him in his day to day use of the language. The problem with a lot of the anti-C++ rants is that they make it sound like it is impossible to get anything done in C++, which of course is not the case. Memory management for example is often brought up as a major issue with C++. I have been in 200+kloc projects that never leak memory and very, very rarely have to call delete. Just use RAII - it's not rocket science.

[joe_the_user]

With c++ programs, there is a well-understood model for how memory works and decent tools/method for finding memory leaks.

A garbage collected program should never leak memory but if it does, then your problem is nastier - for example, how do you find memory leaks in C# in Mono? The tools are not sufficient. And standard Ruby, btw, doesn't official leak memory but simply never return allocated memory to the main pool - it keeps it in a private pool for future allocation. But allocate 1Gig and your Ruby instance will keep that 1Gig forever.