> If you mean "drop," it's just syntactic sugar for calling a trait that manually deallocates the memory and that you're free to reimplement. I meant `free` be

> If you mean "drop," it's just syntactic sugar for calling a trait that manually deallocates the memory and that you're free to reimplement. I meant `free` because I'm contrasting with C. > It feels like people are equating "manual memory management" with "onerous memory management." Manual memory management is onerous, but I'm very specifically talking about manual. If I can write a whole program without thinking about memory, the language does not require manual memory management. It may support it, but it doesn't require it the way that C or Zig do. You do not "have to explicitly manage memory" as OP claimed.