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I think Rust (and C++) are just too complicated and visually ugly, and ultimately that hurts the maintainability of the code. C is simple, universal, and arguably beautiful to look at.


C is simple. As a result, programming in C is not simple in any way.


These are all opinions.


C is so simple, that you will need to read a 700-page, comitee-written manual befor you can attempt to write it correctly.


> C is so simple, that you will need to read a 700-page, comitee-written manual befor you can attempt to write it correctly.

The official C99 standard document is typically about 210 pages.


https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3096.pdf

Admittedly the 700 pages include the appendix and it is only a draft version, but still...


Except the little detail that you need to complement that with all the manuals of the C compilers being used.




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