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markus_zhang ◴[06 May 25 18:09 UTC] No.43908006[source]▶
What if we have a C that removes the quirks without adding too much brain drain?

So no implicit type conversions, safer strings, etc.

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1. nitwit005 ◴[06 May 25 19:38 UTC] No.43908840[source]▶
Because it's easier to add a warning or error. Don't like implicit conversions? Add a compiler flag, and the issue is basically gone.

Safer strings is harder, as it gets into the general memory safety problem, but people have tried adding safer variants of all the classic functions, and warnings around them.