Unless you're working with strings, which are a hell of a nightmare to use safely. It's become a lot better in terms of the stdlib, but even stuff like the supp

Unless you're working with strings, which are a hell of a nightmare to use safely. It's become a lot better in terms of the stdlib, but even stuff like the supposedly safe vsnprintf may quickly ruin your day and open potential overflow exploits if you forget to accout for the space of a null terminator or accidentally write the return value to a size_t instead of an int. Error handling isn't obvious either. The linux kernel does it the right way with error code returns and results in pointers, but that's not the obvious way at all.