C can be memory-safe

The idea of memory-safe languages is in the news lately. C/C++ is famous for being the world's system language (that runs most things) but also infamous for being unsafe. Many want to solve this by hard-forking the world's system code, either by changing C/C++ into something that's memory-safe, or rewriting everything in Rust.

Forking is a foolish idea. The core principle of computer-science is that we need to live with legacy, not abandon it.

And there's no need. Modern C …

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