Comment by the_mitsuhiko

All the allocators have the same issue. They largely work against a shared set of allocation APIs. Many of their users mostly engage via malloc and free.

So the flow is like this: user has an allocation looking issue. Picks up $allocator. If they have an $allocator type problem then they keep using it, otherwise they use something else.

There are tons of users if these allocators but many rarely engage with the developers. Many wouldn’t even notice improvements or regressions on upgrades because after the initial choice they stop looking.

I’m not sure how to fix that, but this is not healthy for such projects.