[mgerdts]

> I have seen C wizardry up close that I know I simply cannot do.

I have written C at least a few times per year for over 30 years. About ten years of that was OS development on Solaris and its derivatives.

Articles like this show crazy things you can do in C. I’ve never found the need to do things like this and have never seen them in the wild.

The places that wizardry is required are places like integer and buffer overflow, locking, overall structure of large codebases, build infrastructure, algorithms, etc. Many of these are concerns in most languages.

> auto reject C PR’s if they didn’t use the syntax if (1==x) rather than if (x==1)

When I was a student in the 90s advice like this would have been helpful. Compiler warnings and static analyzers are so much better now that tricks like this are not needed.