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by BoxOfRain 1792 days ago
>This is somewhat the point. If using the language's standard libraries is "absolutely doing it wrong", that's an indictment of the language.

Exactly, all languages have footguns but some have a lot more than others. You don't hear for example Java developers bitching about JDBC to anywhere close to the extent PHP developers bitch about the various common approaches to database connections.