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		bigstrat2003 on May 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why not just do simple C++ RAII in C? I think pretty much any amount of performance is worth sacrificing in order to get rid of the gnarly things UB can cause. Correctness is the first and most important thing in programming, because if you can't be certain it works then it's not very useful.

einpoklum on May 24, 2024 [–]

It may be worth it _for you_. It is not worth it _for others_.

Correctness can be established well enough - even if guaranteed automatically - in a language with UB.

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