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.
I wonder if in a few years you will never want to write another line of Rust again like another developer I know who used to be enamored with Rust.
That said, I have not written perfect C code myself, but I have fixed a number of mistakes others made in their C code. Many of my commits to OpenZFS were done to fix others’ mistakes. A few of my commits even contained my own mistakes that I or others later caught. Feel free to inspect the codebase yourself. You should find it is a very well written codebase
> 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.
So basically Jeff Sutherland ever since he started talking about AI. "My AI agents have formed a Scrum team that's 30 times faster than any human developer!" Great, Jeff. Working in which company's production codebase?
Yeah, well, as stated: software written by humans will have bugs.
The real danger with Rust is the cult like delusion that's not the case for them.
To be sure, my Rust has bugs in it, but none of them come close to the spooky nonsense that could happen in my C and yet the performance is excellent. Probably more than once a day Rust's compiler rejects code that an analogous C compiler would wave through - and maybe it'd survive testing too, at least for a while.