[kstenerud]

Why would you write small apps in rust? Just use go. It's perfect for < 10,000 line programs.

I've written more in C than in any other language (and I've written in dozens of languages professionally over the past 25 years). But the one thing that gets hammered home with every line of C I write is this: You're playing with a loaded gun.

The more code there is, the more likely it is that you have subtle heisenbugs that break in mysterious ways. My current job requires C (for a number of good reasons), and I really notice the jump in crazy, hard-to-track bugs despite my DECADES of experience as a careful, expert C programmer.

C is "simple" because all of the complexity gets pushed to the compiler behaviour and runtime environment. You don't even discover how many assumptions you've been making until you have years of experience under your belt.