Why isn't the conclusion "There is a far better way of using C, which the stdlib doesn't promote... But could"? The fact of the matter is that any sufficiently

Why isn't the conclusion "There is a far better way of using C, which the stdlib doesn't promote... But could"? The fact of the matter is that any sufficiently large C codebase will do this stuff anyway, it's not a language issue. Good Rust code will also care about memory allocations to the same degree as the C code, the difference is that Rust will help you out in making sure your thinking is correct. My experience is that good systems programming has thinking about memory allocations not as an annoying side issue, but as a main concern.