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dwatttttlast Sunday at 12:24 AM1 replyview on HN

Rust is the poster child for these complaints, but this is a great example of "the language rejects a valid program". Not all things that can be expressed in C are good ideas!

This is "valid" C, but I wholly support checking tools that reject it.


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dnauticslast Sunday at 12:29 AM

exactly! "guaranteeing the safety of C" sir what did you think that meant, sprinkling magic fairy dust to make it work!!?

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