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Right, those devs with 20+ years C experience don't know shit about the language and are just lazy. They don't want to catch up with the times and write safe C. It's me, the dude with 5 years of university experience who will set it straight. Look at my hello world program, not a single line of vulnerable code.
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This is not completely wrong, though
Yeah, for sure. Human error is involved in C and inertia too. New coding practices and libraries aren't used, tests aren't written, code quality sucks (variable names in C are notoriously cryptic), there's little documentation, many things are rewritten (seems like everybody has rewritten memory allocation at least once), one's casual
void *is another's absolute nono, and so on.C just makes it really easy to make mistakes.
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It has nothing to do with knowing the language and everything to do with what's outside of the language. C hasn't resembled CPUs for decades and can't be reasonably retrofitted for safety.