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Discussion on: Explain "Memory Safe Programming Languages" Like I'm Five Please

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Rogerio Senna

And Java, C#, Python are like "Don't worry, go play, we will clean it up everything afterwards" 😅

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Jen Lewis

Except for event listeners. I know C# doesn't completely clean up event listeners (not sure about java). One of the nastiest memory leaks I've seen in my career was from not unsubscribing to event listeners properly. Funnily enough this was on a government project also.