[mitchs]

Something I see as wrong with C outside of the context of the Linux kernel is mostly something wrong with us the developers. We are far too content to live in filth.

In addition to unsafe/irregular buffer handling, I also constantly see poor data structure choice, presumably due to a lack of default choice of library. It is very common to see code scanning linked lists when they should be doing map look ups. (And often even the linked list operations are ad-hoc and repeated for every type of struct with an embedded next/prev pointer.) Everyone always defaults to linked listing it up because they never have to pay the up-front cost of finding a library or investing in re-inventing the wheel. I think this is also why you see so much sketchy buffer code - no one has bothered investing in safer buffer abstractions.

Perhaps some of this is caused by the difficulty of taking on dependencies in a portable way. (CMake/Autotools can make this better, but it is a far cry from NPM.)