Hi, I'm a C# developer who has done some Java and C++ in the past. You may consider me in the box of people who thinks the constructor creates the object, and the object not existing until the constructor finishes. The allocation of memory is not what I would count as creation of an object, as a model of memory is basically unrelated to the idea of objects and language semantics as I use them. If the object cannot be used, I would consider it not yet created.

I am not trying to argue (on the contrary, I would defer to your expertise), but rather I mean to add a small data point of what perspective developers with my background may have.