Comment by scottlamb

I think because it's called `safe_c.h` and is "designed to give C some safety and convenience features from ... Rust", and says "The Memory Management Beast: Slain", you expected to see some level of memory safety, Rust's headline selling point. I did too when I opened the article. But it doesn't at all. Those phrases are all clickbait and slop.

In fact I don't see anything here from Rust that isn't also in C++. They talk about Result and say "Inspired by Rust, Result forces you to handle errors explicitly by returning a type that is either a success value or an error value", but actually, unlike Rust, nothing enforces that you don't just incorrectly use value without checking status first.

It's just some macros the author likes. And strangely presented—why are the LIKELY/UNLIKELY macros thrown in with the CLEANUP one in that first code snippet? That non sequitur is part of what gives me an LLM-written vibe.