[acuozzo]

> C still is simple

Syntactically, yes. Semantically, no.

There are languages with tons of "features" with far, far less semantic overhead than C.

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/767

FWIW, writing programs in C has been my day job for a long time.

[drob518]

Exactly. There is a lot happening implicitly in a C program that the programmer has to be aware of and keep in mind. And it’s made worse by valid compile implementation choices. I remember chasing a bug for a day that was based on me forgetting that the particular implementation I was working with had signed characters and was sign extending something at an inopportune time.

[kstrauser]

C is simple like SMTP.

[acuozzo]

EXACTLY!

[groos]

As someone who has had to parse C syntax for a living, I'd argue that it's not syntactically simple either. (Declarators are particularly nasty in C and even more so in C++).

[ChrisRR]

Entirely my point. Simpler in some ways, more difficult in others. Totally depends on the use case