Y’all I have no idea why C has a reputation for being hard to use correctly, this seems really straightforward…
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The truth is that you have to learn the language before you use it. People are too lazy.
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Hi I’m a professional code auditor and this is THE WORST take on C
It. Is. Really. REALLY. Hard.
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Hi. If it's too hard for people, they need to find something else to do that they're able to do minimally well.
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Or use languages and/or libraries that are better designed to cope with human fallibility. 🤔
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I guess my point is that it's the designer's fault (rather than the user's) for designing something so blatantly error-prone. If that has assumptions the designer made at the time have changed then we should be moving to tools that better cope with the context of today.
There are plenty of new languages. Go is very C-like but scales better and is a lot more idiot proof. These issues with C have been discussed since the 80s and 90s, though, so people should have no excuses.