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by sobeston 1980 days ago
The concept of the heap is in the userspace of the language. This terminology is confusing to someone thinking of usermode/kernelmode - this is instead talking of userspace versus language-space. As in, users implement code to reason about heap memory; the language does not know or care what heap is.

At a language level, zig does not have a "new" or a "malloc" or anything of the sort.