On: ISO C became unusable for operating systems develo...

[bee_rider]

See also decades of Fortran performance dominance, only overcome by throwing a gazillion C programmers at the problem.

[pjmlp → bee_rider]

In theory, because those gazillion C programmers happen to misuse restrict, so in the end it mostly ends up in flames.

[gpderetta → bee_rider]

but doesn't Fortran get away with it exactly because argument aliasing is UB? You can use restrict to get Fortran semantics.

[bee_rider → gpderetta]

Actually yeah, you are right. I somehow misread it as a defense of UB because of the last sentence. Total a brain-fart on my part, sorry.