One of the things I liked about Zig is that it made choosing which memory strategy (malloc, stack allocated, Arena, Bounded allocation, combo) you needed for a

One of the things I liked about Zig is that it made choosing which memory strategy (malloc, stack allocated, Arena, Bounded allocation, combo) you needed for a particular code second straightforwarded and well supported. Microbenchmarks are cool, but better algorithms are where you get faster code.