I pretty much agree with that thread's replies, not much to add. I didn't know VLAs though (they didn't exist back in the day when I used C). Even though you s

I pretty much agree with that thread's replies, not much to add. I didn't know VLAs though (they didn't exist back in the day when I used C). Even though you still have no growable buffers/reallocation (AFAICT), I concede those open up a wider class of complex programs. Thanks for the pointer (pun intended) on VLAs, will check them out. Still no garbage collection though (and I agree with you that neither is Rust's).