Comment by dathinab

> Let's ignore for now that this will surprise every C developer out there that have been doing if (NULL != ptr) free(ptr) for 50 years now.

if you did 50 years of development and haven't realized that in projects crossing language (or just separately complied C libs) you have to free things where you create them and can't use the many many libraries which do require you to use their own free/destruction functions and don't even have understand that free is flat and in turn you need to also "destruct" each item in a struct manually and that if you don't have a custom function for this it can easily become a huge bug prone mess

.. then I'm really not sure how this happened tbh.

but if you are not a senior C/C++/FFI developer maybe not a C/C++/FFI developer at all it's not hard to see how you might have missed this things tbh.