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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago

I mean, it's still the case under the hood, and languages like C do work that way. Sure, it's abstracted away in most programming languages these days, but if you ever need to do direct memory management, it's very much still how it works.