it looks like something out of modern high fantasy
a footgun isn’t inherently bad, it just implies a significant amount of risk
yes, if you need the ability to code on a low level, maybe C is necessary, but the times where that is actually necessary is smol
also rust
exposing the machinations of the underlying CPU with no regard for safety is like, the definition of a footgun
people say this but C is significantly more batshit than javascript
oh you used scanf
? one of the basic functions of our language? sorry that’s got a buffer overflow vulnerability so now your application is compromised
good luck doing frontend development without it, but it can also do backend development
it can do everything
PHP is fine
i will fine you
it’s semantic
at the end of the day everything boils down to sequence and branchifs