Not really. JVM is similar in this regard and one of the thing we wrote in our basic Java course was the code that produces memory leak. And when you have memory leak you also may end up with other fun things like applications behaving unexpectedly in low memory conditions.
Java has a garbage collector, you shouldn't have memory leaks unless you are just incorrectly allocating memory, which isn't technically a leak which refers to allocated memory with no reference. Without a reference the garbage collector would pick it up.
That‘s a really weak argument. You can build memory leaks in every language and at some point your application will have a problem.