The alternative, which is everyone writing their own mostly terrible implementations, is far worse.

"Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship because while you're there, you can make a difference."

If only Microsoft would realize this.

The number of commenters failing to understand that the article is satire is staggering. Hell, look at the "department" the article is from.

How is this the opposite of how most other languages work? This is obvious behavior, both myObj and newObj contain references to the same object.

Look at Java and C#, it worked well for them.