Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 18 October 2021 at 11:08:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Well, yes, malloc is only the default, when people want speed 
> in system level programming they create their own allocators.
>

It doesn't matter. These allocator need memory from the system 
and almost always use malloc do get it. Which as far as the GC is 
concerned, it the only thing that is needed. It doesn't matter if 
you malloc each object or if you malloc a large slab and then 
manage it manually.