I don’t buy it. To write meaningful C that you actually understand requires all the same knowledge of how computers work, yet C is a tremendously simpler langua

I don’t buy it. To write meaningful C that you actually understand requires all the same knowledge of how computers work, yet C is a tremendously simpler language than rust and has an easy to comprehend memory model. The difference is all the stuff Rust adds on top of fundamentals to make it easier to write correct code with respect to memory usage (in other words, it’s a sophisticated system to make sure you always pair one malloc with one free and don’t make any of the other mistakes C permits partly as a result of its simplicity)