In 2021 I found a huge memory leak in VS code, totalling around 64 GB when I first saw it, but with no actual limit on how high it could go. I found this leak despite two obstacles that should have made the discovery impossible: The memory leak didn’t show up in Task Manager – there was no process whose memory consumption was increasing. I had never used VS Code. In fact, I have still never used it. So how did this work? How did I find an invisible memory leak in a tool that I have never used? T...