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by rurban 782 days ago
It's missing all the anti facts, why the Unix Haters handbook exists. https://archive.org/details/TheUnixHatersHandbook/

Horrible libc (strings, blocking IO, threads, locale, ...), why all our systems are catastrophically bloated and insecure. Garbage in, garbage out, the tagline of modern unix.

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Why you don't have an alt libc that takes safe strings is beyond me.
I do maintain the safec lib actually, but this I just the bounds-checking Annex K, not a proper string library with u8 and identifier support.