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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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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago

Usually what's meant by a memory leak is memory that's allocated but never freed. Writing outside of array allocation would usually be considered an overflow. Which sounds kinda similar but is not the same.