> It's all really bad for reasoning about your program :( True, but it's really good for performance in a lot of incredibly common cases, which is why it's a c

> It's all really bad for reasoning about your program :( True, but it's really good for performance in a lot of incredibly common cases, which is why it's a case of a tough tradeoff they had to make - rather than a malicious choice to just make our lives more difficult. :) (An expert in this stuff would probably also wave their hands and say something about exotic and/or legacy hardware that those languages need and/or want to support.)