Comment by kstenerud

Quite right. I have 35 years of C under my belt. I can write it in my sleep.

But even so, I can't for the life of me write C code that's as safe as Rust. There are just too many ways to make subtle little mistakes here and there, incrementing a typed pointer by a sizeof by mistake thinking it's a uintptr_t, losing track of ownership and getting a use-after-free, messing up atomic access, mutex deadlocks oh my...

And that's with ALL warnings enabled in CLANG. It's even worse with the default warnings.