Whenever C gets brought up, people are like, "pointers... memory... dangerous!" In 20+ years of C, I've never had a (self-inflicted) problem in that area. Maybe I'm the rain man of bit-twiddling?
What has caused me tremendous grief are all of the inconsistencies in the compilers, the gotchas of the precompiler, and the ambiguities in the language itself. C++ is even worse.
Rust is great, but not great enough to justify a redo of a program that has been extended and maintained for decades (like vim or photoshop).
I think an iterative tightening of the language would be of greater utility to everyday computing than a rush to re-do everything in something "better."
What has caused me tremendous grief are all of the inconsistencies in the compilers, the gotchas of the precompiler, and the ambiguities in the language itself. C++ is even worse.
Rust is great, but not great enough to justify a redo of a program that has been extended and maintained for decades (like vim or photoshop).
I think an iterative tightening of the language would be of greater utility to everyday computing than a rush to re-do everything in something "better."