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Evolution of C (programming.dev)

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

D kind of did that (C pointers are still an option, alongside with the preferred dynamic arrays, which has the memory safety features), and once I've seen a C compiler fork that retroactively added D-style memory safety features, although they also very much insisted on the "const by default" mantra.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

I think this is one of those things where there's no "kind of". Pointers were added for a reason, you're probably not going to implement a database very well without them. If you use them, at some scale you're inevitably going to have memory bugs. Technically, if you were to only use hardcoded printfs, C is memory safe too.