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by uecker 296 days ago
To be precise, it was "C is entirely as complicated as Rust, if your goal is to write correct software that doesn't crash all the time." and I think we wouldn't have this discussion if it were uncontroversial. As somebody writing C code and managing a team that writes C code, there is not a particular high effort needed to make C software not crash. It may be too easy to write messy C code that crashes all the time, but this is not at all the same thing.