[tjfontaine]

I understand your position, but often the memory leaks in your runtime are not your fault — https://www.joyent.com/blog/walmart-node-js-memory-leak

It’s difficult to find and diagnose these types of issues, so anyone looking into RAII style leaks, or long lived closures, need tools to help them understand their allocations and their life cycle to be able to solve their problems.