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Just because it's good to be aware of how memory management works doesn't mean you should be dragged through tedious manual tasks every time you code.

Assembler was probably part of many peoples basic training as well. Do you want to spend your days juggling everything in 4 general purpose registers because it makes you feel like a better programmer? Is that the best use of your time?

Actually even with gc enabled languages, you can create memory leaks. Hence you still need to know a little bit on how it works.

However, I fail to see why I should have to worry about it and do it manually.

It's making me feel old too.

GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS WITH YOUR FANCY PYTHON.