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Finally I have a valid reason to learn about memory management. It was also hella weird when encountering it.
Congratulations! Now you can get a job at Fortinet.
(Fortinet is a network security vendor...think firewalls, HLBs, etc. They get an ungodly amount of memory leak bugs, or at least far more than you would expect from an enterprise firewall)
is this some genX meme that I'm too millennial to understand?
Learn some C you whippersnapper! You ain't gonna become a proper programmer unless you understand your basic low level concepts well!
The youth nowadays, always hiding behind abstractions of abstractions that 90% of the time are just C wrappers anyway /j
(written by an early 20s PHP dev LOL. Although I do plan on learning C quite a bit before I move to C++ and ultimately Rust)
Cruft can be a hard thing to debug. Mainly when you're not used to memory issues and haven't learned all the best practices.
There's also zig if you want to play with memory. You'll know a lot about allocation, that's for sure.