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jmull on Sept 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig

What do you think the difference is between “patching out free” and allocators as a first-class feature? I’ll bet you can think of a few rather significant ones if you try.

saagarjha on Sept 19, 2023 [–]

Zig has custom allocators as a first-class feature. It does not have memory safety as a first-class feature.

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