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> That's a pretty serious limitation and would probably make it hard to do anything really interesting.

No it's not, and no it doesn't.

No dynamic allocation is a pretty standard precaution for safety critical software. It requires careful coding and design, but it eliminates an entire class of runtime errors and makes it relatively easy to put an upper bound on memory usage.

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