Hacker News: moveoverhalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=moveoverhalHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:26:25 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by moveoverhal in "Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)"]]>Rust does have manual memory management. You can allocate memory and get a simple pointer back, and then it is on you to free, just like C.

It is just that, it also has conveniences that make it feel like a language where you don't even have to think about memory. I think that is pretty cool.

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