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YEEEAH TALK YO SHIT, MALLOC SUCKS, CALLOC IS AWFUL, REALLOC IS GARBAGE, NO ALIGNMENT NO SIZES IT'S A "REALLY BAD API" THAT'S RIGHT BILL TALK TO 'EEEEEEEEEEEEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone is agreeing that the whole C standard library design is shit. Good.

There's hope for the youth yet.

"Memory management in C is not actually hard, NO! It's malloc that's hard!"

Half-agree. Like, this is a complete true statement, but it's missing the "and we don't have good slices and everything's still a pointer".

"Start with the most descriptive name, THEN compress it later." Bill and Ryan will be happy to know that we've adopted this policy! ... But mostly for very new features/headers. Old stuff will still probably have the compressed names! <stdbit.h> has descriptive names, though, as a recent example.

"We would remove most stuff from C23, and only work from C11 or C99/89" I've talked about this a lot previously, but honestly it's fine. This is how most C developers are; they consider the things they care about to be the holy grail, and then EVERYTHING else is FOR LOSERS.