I agree. Further, these problems have been known since the 1960's with solutions available then. Should've been adopted once the cheap hardware caught up in performance. The thing that surprises me is how many people think C's design decisions were well-thought or something vs competition. No, they just stripped every good protection or feature from ALGOL, etc so it would fit on the PDP-11. Did same for UNIX. That made sense given what they had on hand but keeping it all the way into 2015? See main article's gripes for entirely-predictable result.

Gave details here on C and UNIX history with counterexamples from other systems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10273656