Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language

> C doesn't try to save you from making mistakes. It has very few opinions about your code and happily assumes that you know exactly what you're doing. Freedom with responsibility.

I love C because it doesn't make my life very inconvenient to protect me from stubbing my toe in it. I hate C when I stub my toe in it.

I've heard it put another way that I enjoyed: "C assumes you know what you're doing, which is only a problem if you don't know what you're doing."

Having spent many, many years paid to write C, and with no wish to write any more now than I learned Rust, I would suggest a rewording:

"C assumes you know what you're doing, which is only a problem because you don't know what you're doing."

Periodically, especially in r/cpp I run into people who are apparently faultless and so don't make the mistakes that make these languages dangerous, weirdly none of these people seem to have written any software I can inspect to see for myself what that looks like, and furthermore the universe I live in doesn't seem to have any of the resulting software. I choose to interpret this mystery as: People are idiots and liars, but of course there could be other interpretations.