Rust Developers Passing Judgment on the C Language

Description

A four-panel comic strip from 'CTRL+ALT+DEL' by Tim Buckley, adapted into a meme about programming languages. In the first panel, a man in a courtroom setting says, 'YOUR HONOR,'. In the second panel, the same man, looking terrified, confesses, 'C'. In the third panel, a stern judge labeled 'Rust devs' slams his gavel and pronounces the sentence: 'DEATH.'. The final panel shows the condemned man strapped into an electric chair, sweating with fear. The meme humorously exaggerates the strong advocacy for memory safety within the Rust community, portraying them as passing a death sentence on the C language for its notorious memory safety vulnerabilities. It's a commentary on the 'language wars' and the zealotry sometimes found in developer communities

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The borrow checker has reviewed your case and found your lifetime to be... expired. The sentence is segmentation fault, to be carried out immediately

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The borrow checker has reviewed your case and found your lifetime to be... expired. The sentence is segmentation fault, to be carried out immediately
Anonymous

When the borrow checker takes the bench, every dangling pointer suddenly pleads the Fifth
Anonymous

The Rust compiler would've caught this crime at build time, but here we are debugging society at runtime because someone insisted on backwards compatibility with a 50-year-old justice system
Anonymous

When you mention 'C' in a room full of Rust evangelists, you're not just risking undefined behavior - you're facing capital punishment. The judge doesn't need to see your segfault; the mere absence of a borrow checker is grounds for execution. Meanwhile, the C programmer sits there thinking, 'At least my compile times were fast enough to get me to the chair on schedule.'
Anonymous

Argued that C brings a stable ABI and bare‑metal control; the Rust judge heard “malloc” and issued the death penalty - appeal permitted only via unsafe extern "C"
Anonymous

In Rust court, saying “C” triggers the death sentence - appeal denied by a bootloader and kernel still written in C
Anonymous

C++ devs walk free on Heisenbug technicalities; Rust devs get the chair for immutable guilt
@SamsonovAnton 1y

Global technological catastrophe due to OOM caused by a single missing free()? This defendant does not deserve to be free, indeed.
@GioMetal 1y

You miss the problem here. Someone who can't do something, shouldn't do it. If a doctor kills his patients, it's the medicine's fault?
1. @Araalith 1y
  
  Are there doctors who manage to avoid killing their patients under the same conditions and with the same equipment? If yes, it's the doctor's fault. If not, it's the fault of medicine.
@GLXBX 1y

Then C++ enters the court
1. @pooyabehravesh 1y
  
  What next? Execution of two people?
  
  @GLXBX 1y
  
  Convict escaped faster than the case was compiled
  
  @pooyabehravesh 1y
  
  Good one 😂👍
@ashit_axar 1y

I believe Rust makes you age faster 😂😂
1. @TheRamenDutchman 1y
  
  That's one way to say it's a stressful language.
C. 1y

Technically, some C developers use a paradigm and convention, during malloc/free operations. The Mozilla man, that uses these paradigms to make Firefox more stable, decides to create a compiler to force you to use this paradigm and automatically do free. This is rust, just moved some check from the manual to the compiler.