> I suspect that there is a body of C programmers out here that use C on a regular basis that aren’t posting who know that using C safely is 99% just using Valgrind and some specific GCC or llvm flags and you’re done.

Absolutely right! I sincerely hope they share their knowledge here and elsewhere.

> They don’t reply to these threads to share that knowledge because these threads devolve into cesspools

HN is often rage-inducing when it comes to comments on C/C++/Fortran/Cobol/etc. older languages and systems. There are many critical and industrial-strength systems developed by the previous generation of engineers/programmers which today's noobs/cargo-cultists cannot even hope to imagine much less understand.

As an example, people talk about all the great features provided by Erlang but forget that its BEAM VM where most of the "magic" resides is actually written in C! Imagine how much expertise lies buried in its implementation!