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by tree_of_item 3130 days ago
Would it really be so hard to do this exact same thing in a memory safe language? Would that stifle the author's creativity in any way?
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People often do what they love with the tools they love. Complaining that someone wrote a hobby project with C is akin to complaining that your neighbor made a decorative baseball bat with her lathe instead of a 3D printer.
Writing Lisp in 200 lines of Haskell wouldn’t be nearly as interesting. The whole point is (presumably) that it’s fun to code golf in C because it’s not very expressive. Relax, no one is going to use the OP’s code to run a pacemaker.