It blew my mind (in a bad way) when i went from CodeWarrior to GCC, and suddenly basic pointer typechecking was a minor warning that you had to enable instead o

It blew my mind (in a bad way) when i went from CodeWarrior to GCC, and suddenly basic pointer typechecking was a minor warning that you had to enable instead of a hard compile error that was on all the time. My takeaway was that Unix people were lax because they didn’t have to worry about corrupting system data structures like we did on classic MacOS, AmigaOS, Windows pre-NT, etc.