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Ryan Fleury is among the few who’s cracked the code to write programs in C while virtually eliminating
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#### Burn Down the Forest of Mallocs and Frees

The old-school way of managing low-level memory, in Ryan’s own words, “can easily lead to a rat’s nest
of complexity.” This problem has plagued most C/C++ programmers for decades.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

With his [recent](https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-allocator) | [tours](https://handmade.network/podcast/ep/afc72ed0-f05f-4bee-a658-9ad02c0453da) of arena-based memory allocators, Ryan is now poised to show you his solution in
a mentorship setting! It’s time to level up your memory strategy and eliminate the common memory bugs in C.