1. http://www.azulsystems.com/presentations/qcon-london-2011

2. fair but irrelevant. the argument was that there is no way to make GC happen. It was wrong. I never objected to the (perhaps more interesting) argument that one should be able to manually delete objects

3. then the parent should have said "in toy codebases, whose function is to look pretty, new and delete have no place" instead of a sweeping generalization that all uses of new and delete are archaic and wrong. That one generalization was an insult to every llvm & WebKit developer out there.

Disclaimer: i have no dog in this race - i prefer to work in C and think anyone who cannot free their own memory should maintain a safe 5 meter distance from any compiler. (this is my opinion only, of course)