[baby]

Come on... C doesn't initialize memory, doesn't manage memory, doesn't verify bounds for buffers, etc.

It's especially unsafe to write C.

[dman]

Thats why we have Java / Rust / Python / CSharp.

[baby]

My point.

[dman]

So we agree that we have different tools with different tradeoffs?

[baby]

Of course, for now. But I still disagree that it is as easy (or hard) to write C without bugs as in any other languages. Most people should not write C.

[dman]

In the same vein - if you happen to be stuck in a problem domain where counting/avoiding allocations is important the other languages I listed above (even C++ really) make things very hard. Rust has a decent take on building a safer c++ (with what appears to be C++ levels of complexity). Would like something similar to emerge for C.