JavaScript Gets malloc() and free()

As a part of an ongoing effort to make frontend more complex, ES2024 will introduce malloc() and free() to JavaScript

A fake programming announcement claims that ES2024 will add the low-level C-style memory functions malloc() and free() to JavaScript in order to make frontend development more complex. The joke mocks JavaScript’s perceived complexity and the tendency of frontend technologies to accumulate unnecessary features.

• @ithueti / 6526 2022-06-05