He addresses this though, with the "no true C programmer would have written this code" argument. Was it a bad idea for OpenSSL to use a custom allocator. Yeah

He addresses this though, with the "no true C programmer would have written this code" argument. Was it a bad idea for OpenSSL to use a custom allocator. Yeah. Did they do it anyway? Yeah. Would it be a bad idea to write a custom allocator in Rust? Yeah. Could you do it anyway? Yup.