He talks about gamedev, and arena allocators are common sense in gamedev. It's more like introduction of a gamedev concept to business programming. Also: >Lea

He talks about gamedev, and arena allocators are common sense in gamedev. It's more like introduction of a gamedev concept to business programming. Also: >Learning how to work with arenas entirely revolutionized my experience with writing code in C. But, right, arena allocator is a tool, not a solution, you still have to invent a solution every time, it's still manual memory management, just an easier one.