[dpc_pw]

After coding in Rust, I got paranoid about writting any C. I always knew the issues of ownership, concurrent access, allocation etc. are there, and I had to think about them anyway, but after explicitly dealing with them in Rust all the time, I see them now so clearly. They're everywhere, and without language support it's so easy to overlook eg. iterator invalidation issues, or aliasing.

Sure, in practice, if you keep your code neat and well designed, and hopefully not too big, it's hard to really trigger such bugs, but in a bigger codebase it's so easy to overlook them...

[gnuvince]

Worse, when in C you finally convince yourself that a particular piece of code is free of ownership issues, another programmer can come in, add a single line of code or do a "helpful" refactoring and suddenly the issues are back.