Comment by lisper

I have never understood why the C community does not rally around what seems to me to be the obvious answer to the main problem with C: stop conflating pointers and arrays, or at least deprecate it. Make arrays a separate data type, not a synonym for a pointer, and require the system to track the size of arrays either at compile time or at run time (or both). Make a[x] be a bounds-checked array reference rather than a synonym for an unchecked dereference of a+x. It seems stupidly obvious to me that this is the Right Thing. Yes, it would be a non-backwards-compatible change, but the benefits seem to me to vastly outweigh the costs.