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OutOfHeretoday at 7:24 AM1 replyview on HN

It would be safer to use a Zig or Rust or Nim target. C risks memory-unsafe behavior. The risk profile is even bigger for vibe-coded implementations.


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kossisoroycetoday at 9:26 AM

Fair point in general, but the risk profile here is actually quite low. The generated C is purely computational, with no heap allocation, no pointer arithmetic, no user-controlled memory, no IO. It's essentially a deeply nested if/else tree over a fixed-size float array. The "unsafe" surface in C is largely a non-issue when the code is statically shaped at compile time from a deterministic compiler pass.

Rust/Zig/Nim would add toolchain complexity with minimal safety gain for this specific output shape. Those were my considerations.