Zig Memory Ownership Across Host Runtimes: Allocators, Arena Lifetimes, Free APIs, and Leak Tests

A practical two-hour session on Zig Memory Ownership Across Host Runtimes, focused on Allocators, Arena Lifetimes, Free APIs, and Leak Tests. The session treats Zig as a native component exposed through C-compatible boundaries, with attention to exported symbols, allocators, packaging, host-runtime tests, and failure handling.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Zig Memory Ownership Across Host Runtimes
• Apply Allocators in a small working example
• Apply Arena Lifetimes in a small working example
• Apply Free APIs in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.