Yeah, even just 'upcasting' is surprisingly effective as well, it's really just inheritance. The lack of being able to embed more than one 'thing' is painful th

Yeah, even just 'upcasting' is surprisingly effective as well, it's really just inheritance. The lack of being able to embed more than one 'thing' is painful though. And if you're not careful you can run into ugly strict aliasing issues like `struct sockaddr` has (Though a quick `-fno-strict-aliasing` can make all your problems go away...) And I would agree, I find a surprising number of people think C is 'easy' because it doesn't contain that many built-in constructs, and then get completely stuck when they try to use it. To get really good at C, you need a very solid understanding of common and effective patterns you can use. You can still write C without such things, but it quickly becomes a mess of random patterns and inconsistencies. And unfortunately, I can't really think of one source you can really point to for learning them (though admittedly I haven't really looked into it tons).