[dwattttt]

Rust is the poster child for these complaints, but this is a great example of "the language rejects a valid program". Not all things that can be expressed in C are good ideas!

This is "valid" C, but I wholly support checking tools that reject it.

[dnautics]

exactly! "guaranteeing the safety of C" sir what did you think that meant, sprinkling magic fairy dust to make it work!!?

[dnautics]

i made a quip and realized that's not a bad description of what fil-c does

[throwaway17_17]

Are you implying that Fil-C has this sort of reaction to people confused about why it does certain things in the name of safety, or are you saying Fil-C is just sprinkling magic fairy dust on C and declaring it safe?

[dnautics]

i like fil-c, so i would say "fil c sprinkles magic fairy dust on C and makes it safe (at the cost of perf and elevated risk of crashing)