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Is rust simple aesthetics to you? Why use rust, or any language at all really, at all then? The whole point of formal languages is to point a gun at the people who refuse to be adults.

If we can't have this, C itself offers zero benefit over assembly.

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I think it's more in the spirit of playfulness, like in "don't take yourself too seriously". It's why people want to mod Minecraft and Doom for example.

Because it's fun.

I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to do this though - the plethora of incompatible lisp dialects come to mind. That's why I said it was controversial.

You don't think assembly is more tedious to write than C? I don't think that's because of what C does/doesn't "allow" you to do.

Of course it is. C does allow named functions and variables. C doesn’t allow arbitrary jumps.

Those are two reasons why C is less tedious than assembly.

> C doesn’t allow arbitrary jumps.

Have you heard of longjmp?

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