[saghm]

> segfault lets the user know that the developer made a mistake, and where in the code it happened. Blaming C for segfaults is blaming the tool.

You can't even assume that most things will segfault though; with UB, you're lucky if it segfaults, since it's more noticeable and easier to debug! But there's not guarantee it will do that when you mess up.

> There is a place for Zig, and Nim and Rust in this world, but there is no world in which these tools make the same trade-offs as C and end up with a faster and more portable (across hardware) language.

I don't think anyone is arguing that a language would be faster or more portable, just that one could be written that's equally fast and portable enough to be useful for most things. I'd be happy to let C remain dominant specialized hardware if it means that the OS for my laptop, desktop, and phone can be written in something safer and as fast.