Frankly it's a bit hard to untangle your point from the way you write. Something to consider. > and profoundly misunderstood history. There seems to be a good

Frankly it's a bit hard to untangle your point from the way you write. Something to consider. > and profoundly misunderstood history. There seems to be a good deal of that. > They didn't know better. For what it's worth, we always knew better with C and C++. As I mentioned elsewhere languages were often designed to be safer but as C became more popular the design mistakes of C were pushed on other languages. You can look at FORTRAN, Algol, etc, to see that compiler writers took measures to ensure certain bug classes weren't possible, and those languages were overtaken by those who wanted their code to just compile, correct or not. Your post definitely comes across as very preachy, so it's odd that you say you were trying to "avoid the immature shouty part" - that's what the parent was basically criticizing you for. And then to end it on the implication, once again, that some people are "doers" while the rest of us are just posting on HN (the same thing you are doing????) kinda exemplifies it.