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by baq 213 days ago
> The idea that people occasionally throw around that C is more 'simple' and less 'complex' than C++ or Rust and therefore it leads to more maintainable or easy to understand code is, IMO, completely bogus.

This, this, this.

C compilers are simple, but the C language is not, and let’s not even talk about C++.