A good portion of my day to day work involves handling JS memory leaks, due to the growing reliance on JS for behaviours, interactions, and application logic (sometimes an over-reliance, IMHO). It's sad that most of the JavaScript developers I interview have no real idea what causes or how to fix leaks. We could really do with making the community more aware of this stuff!
Talking to JS programmers about memory management is like talking to VisualBasic programmers about data alignment. Won't lead anywhere.
Fixing leaking websites should be done by the JS vm as webdevs are usually pretty non technical and have no understanding of concepts like memory management.
A good portion of my day to day work involves handling JS memory leaks, due to the growing reliance on JS for behaviours, interactions, and application logic (sometimes an over-reliance, IMHO). It's sad that most of the JavaScript developers I interview have no real idea what causes or how to fix leaks. We could really do with making the community more aware of this stuff!