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> C doesn't make anything inconvenient Other than writing memory safe code, as history has shown.

• codr7 1y ago
  Difficult, not inconvenient. Because it allows things that are difficult, like writing your own memory allocators. If you don't like working at that difficulty level, then C programming isn't for you. And that's fine.
  • OCASMv2 1y ago
    It doesn't allow me to write my own memory allocator, it forces me to. This line of argumentation reminds me of this: Advertise and promote a shortcoming or a fault as a virtue. For example, ultra-cheap single-use film cameras are advertised as "No Focusing Required." The truth is, no focusing is possible, because those cameras have cheap plastic fixed-focus lenses that won't move and can't be focused. What is a serious shortcoming for a camera — the inability to properly focus on the subject — is sold as a convenience: "You don't have to bother with focusing." https://orangepapers.eth.limo/orange-propaganda.html#make_virtue https://orangepapers.eth.limo/orange-propaganda.html#make_vi...
    • codr7 1y ago
      No it doesn't, malloc() and free() is the default.