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I got to avoid memory management for quite some time (feddit.org)
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Finally I have a valid reason to learn about memory management. It was also hella weird when encountering it.

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[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

And understand when you can use them...

I've seen too much code following this advice blindly that just does something like

strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src))