>But sheesh, sometimes I think these are C programmers who don't have the guts to become Rust programmers. I suppose another perspective is that there are no s

>But sheesh, sometimes I think these are C programmers who don't have the guts to become Rust programmers. I suppose another perspective is that there are no shortage of programmers who are suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome, and having them make excuses for existing language's shortcomings are one reason it is harder to get critical mass behind less borked languages ;-) In a similar vein to the original article, some may like to play along with: http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.php http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.php ...anyway, I don't see the problem exposing people to potential pitfalls. It's almost like people arguing that people shouldn't read "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets": https://www.google.com/search?q=expert+c+programming+deep+c+secrets https://www.google.com/search?q=expert+c+programming+deep+c+... ...also I'll just throw this out here: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html?m=1 http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...