1. There’s no manual memory management exposed at the language level (no pointers, no allocation APIs). I intend to keep it this way as long as possible.

2. Containers (list[T], dictionary[K,V]) compile directly to C++ STL types (std::vector, std::unordered_map).

3. Values follow a strict rule: primitives pass by value, containers pass by read-only reference. This prevents accidental aliasing/mutation across scopes and keeps ownership implicit but predictable.

Anything created in a scope is destroyed when that scope ends (standard C++ RAII). So in practice, memory management in Rox is C++ lifetime semantics underneath, but with a stricter surface language to reduce accidental complexity.