> Author here. I wish I had made it clearer that the intent of the post was "this is an interesting and surprising thing you can achieve in C" and not "this is a good idea for a real software project" or "this is a reason to use C instead of C++/Rust/Go".

thanks, because from my experience edgy first year comp.sci. students will see that article and be like "see ! we don't need anything more than C!"