Best Practices for Ownership in GLib

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Documentation standardization — Ensures developers know whether they own an object and must free it.
Ownership clarity — Reduces uncertainty in function return values, improving code maintainability. Fique de olho
Developers should always check gobject-introspection documentation for ownership rules to avoid memory leaks.

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For all the rightful criticisms that C gets, GLib does manage to alleviate at least some of it. If we can’t use a better language, we should at least make use of all the tools we have in C with GLib.

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