Perhaps, but it's something that's difficult to do _while_ learning the language. The most painful part is hiding all the memory allocation and management, but

Perhaps, but it's something that's difficult to do _while_ learning the language. The most painful part is hiding all the memory allocation and management, but perhaps you could just declare a static allocator of the default type. You could just an arena allocator probably; AOC problems should not run out of memory, even if allocations are never released.