The Resurgence of C Programming
Whenever C gets brought up, people are like, &quot;pointers... memory... dangerous!&quot;  In 20+ years of C, I&#x27;ve never had a (self-inflicted) problem in that area.  Maybe I&#x27;m the rain man of bit-twiddling?<p>What has caused me tremendous grief are all of the inconsistencies in the compilers, the gotchas of the precompiler,  and the ambiguities in the language itself.  C++ is even worse.<p>Rust is great, but not great enough to justify a redo of a program that has been extended and maintained for decades (like vim or photoshop).<p>I think an iterative tightening of the language would be of greater utility to everyday computing than a rush to re-do everything in something &quot;better.&quot;