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How strongly typed is C? Are non-trivial programs in C a no-go? Would a LISP program more than a couple of pages long be forbidden?


There are toolings that patch C's shortcomings, and there's a reason better typed languages (e.g. Rust) are making strides in C's domain.


TIOBE gives C 14.32% (1) against Rust 0.49% (29), so "strides" might be over-egging the pudding.


Historic vs future trends.


Which tools patch C's shortcomings?


Static analysis tools and subsets like MISRA C.


Do you have a good one in mind? All the open source tools I've tried are MISRAble


Nope, I haven't been working with C recently.




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