[Aaargh20318]

> Sure, rust is "safer" than C, but is it a better language? that's arguable.

Obviously there are more aspects to a language than safety, so I'll give you that, but yes Rust is a better language than C in this aspect.

Don't forget that programming languages are meant for humans, not for computers. One of the primary goals of a programming language is to prevent humans from making dumb mistakes.

[macintux]

> One of the primary goals of a programming language is to prevent humans from making dumb mistakes.

That clearly wasn't the case when C was designed.

[anp]

I'd wager that using C prevents large classes of errors that would be common place in assembly.

That said, colloquial history seems to say that there were plenty of languages which did a better job at that than C.