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Except the forcing function in C occurs because if you make a mistake, you can have serious problems at runtime. With a strong type system, if you make a mistak

Except the forcing function in C occurs because if you make a mistake, you can have serious problems at runtime. With a strong type system, if you make a mistake, your program won't compile. It's a big difference, and it's hard to justify the C approach for reliable systems development in a modern context. No-one in this thread even seems to be trying. If you want to use it for hobby projects because you enjoy it, knock yourself out. But advocating its use for anything important hasn't been viable for decades except for legacy reasons.

JohnFen 3y ago
> It's a big difference It is! And there is absolutely a role for strongly typed languages. > But advocating its use for anything important hasn't been viable for decades except for legacy reasons. We entirely disagree here. The big benefit of more stringent languages is that they require less effort on the part of the programmer to ensure safety and correctness. This is of great value -- perhaps even indispensable -- in certain contexts. For instance, if the programming team is large, or if the company wants to hire less experienced developers, or if the company wants to keep up a very high velocity. But those are economic arguments. It's different than asserting that a given language is simple too dangerous to use under any circumstance. I think that assertion is entirely unsupportable.