Comment by Asooka

Congratulations! #embed is a very useful feature.

If I may gripe about C for a bit though. I do truly appreciate C's portability. It's possible to target a very diverse set of architectures and operating systems with a single source. Still, I do wish it would actually embrace each architecture, rather than try to mediate between them. A lot of my gripes with C are due to undefined behaviour which is left as such because of platform differences. I've never seen my program become faster if I remove `-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing`, but it has resulted in bugs due to compiler optimisations. I really wish by default "undefined behaviour" would become "platform-specific behaviour", with an officially blessed way to tell the compiler it can perform farther optimisations based on data guarantees.

C occupies a very pleasant niche where it lets you write software for the actual hardware, rather than for a VM, while still being high level enough to allow for expressiveness in algorithms and program organisation. I just wish by default every syntactically valid program would also be a well-defined program, because the alternative we have now makes it really hard to reason about and prove program correctness (i.e. that it does what you think it does).