The UB is a lot more manageable if you pass nostrict-aliasing and similar to the compiler, or if you use a compiler that doesn't do that style of trickery. The

The UB is a lot more manageable if you pass nostrict-aliasing and similar to the compiler, or if you use a compiler that doesn't do that style of trickery. The includes and raw pointers are a build your own abstraction thing. Annoying if the abstraction you're building is the one a different language gives you to work with. For example, a struct with multiple arrays of the same length - in C that's multiple pointers and one size, in other languages that's probably multiple sizes and asserts that they haven't diverged. It's not a perfect language but it's really rather good.