[Sharlin]

I think a charitable interpretation is that given that the Rust code will be less forgiving, it will "break" C code and patterns that "used to work", albeit with latent UB or other nonobvious correctness issues. Now, obviously this is ultimately a good thing, and no developer worth their salt would seriously argue that latent bugs should stay latent, but as we've already seen, people have egos and aren't always exceedingly rational.

[marcosdumay]

Well, thanks.

It's not exactly that the Rust implementation will be less forgiving. But developers will have a clear picture of the operations semantics, while C developers will have a harder time understanding the operations, and consequently avoid them.