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Agreed. It can sometimes be a side effect of small companies, or young developers living the startup lifestyle. Not saying its bad or the root of the problem, just an observation.

More so, I think it comes more with modern languages that don't force you to manage memory anymore. When you don't need to alloc/free everything you're using, it is easy to get lazy. Factor in never generation who've never worked outside a managed memory language. There are minute details about retaining references, having multiple copies of the same data, or other leaks (file descriptors?).

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