Finally I have a valid reason to learn about memory management. It was also hella weird when encountering it.
Back when I was a kid and was learning C, I used to wonder why people considered pointers hard.
My usage of pointers was like:
void func (int * arg1)
{
// do sth with arg1
}
int main ()
{
int x;
func (&x);
return 0;
}
I didn't know stuff like malloc and never felt the need in any of the program logic for the little thingies I made.
Pointers are not hard. Memory management makes it hard.