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OK, how is manual memory management relevant to writing a program to get weather information from an Internet API and display it to the user? In that context, "relevant" is the domains of getting the data (network communications) and displaying it (console vs GUI, converting units to the user's preferences, determining how much to show) and how the program internally manages its buffers is a distraction from those important concepts. Every line of code I have to write to ensure I have the space to store the data I need to work with is visual and cognitive noise, which is why programmers developed garbage collection.