I hold hopes people will discover as I did, the Real real problem with the C language is the C library and the diglossia. Maybe that's a different language[1],

I hold hopes people will discover as I did, the Real real problem with the C language is the C library and the diglossia. Maybe that's a different language[1], but it's one you get with just a bit of #define and discipline. For example: If you had just put the length before the array buffer, you could've saved a stall in almost every use. That's a problem with out-of-order processing that's hard to fix. Maybe your compiler will get sufficiently smart, or maybe CPUs will collude with the memory controller (or something else amazing will happen), but those things are really hard. However we fixed it ourselves; we didn't need anyone to do it for us, because (due to laziness or luck) C gave us enough of the tools we needed to do what we needed to do. I think that's a bigger deal than buffer overflows, as unpopular an opinion as that is. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010895