Memory Leak option

[gregmax17]

like the title says, I would love to see a Memory Leak detection option to help optimize any/all JS code

[valueof]

Memory leaks really depend on the browser/environment so I don't think that JSHint could be of any help here. Unless you know of any generic, easy-to-catch example?

[gregmax17]

Sadly, I don't. Hope someone else can provide an example

[Skalman]

JSHint cannot possibly know if you're intending to use certain information in the future or not (information which you save/reference, but that you don't want to use in the future is what I'd consider a memory leak).

Normally memory leaks are considered to be the problem of browser implementors - i.e. bad garbage collection, if I'm not mistaken.