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-# Comparison to C
-
-What differentiates Crowbar from C?
-
-## Removals
-
-Some of the footguns and complexity in C come from misfeatures that can simply not be used.
-
-### Footguns
-
-Some constructs in C are almost always the wrong thing.
-
-- `goto`
-- Hexadecimal float literals
-- Wide characters
-- Digraphs
-- Prefix `++` and `--`
-- Chaining mixed left and right shifts (e.g. `x << 3 >> 2`)
-- Chaining relational/equality operators (e.g. `3 < x == 2`)
-- Mixed chains of bitwise or logical operators (e.g. `2 & x && 4 ^ y`)
-- The comma operator `,`
-
-Some constructs in C exhibit implicit behavior that should instead be made explicit.
-
-- `typedef`
-- Octal escape sequences
-- Using an assignment operator (`=`, `+=`, etc) or (postfix) `++` and `--` as components in a larger expression
-- The conditional operator `?:`
-- Preprocessor macros (but constants are fine)
-
-### Needless Complexity
-
-Some type modifiers in C exist solely for the purpose of enabling optimizations which most compilers can do already.
-
-- `inline`
-- `register`
-
-Some type modifiers in C only apply in very specific circumstances and so aren't important.
-
-- `restrict`
-- `volatile`
-- `_Imaginary`
-
-## Adjustments
-
-Some C features are footguns by default, so Crowbar ensures that they are only used correctly.
-
-- Unions are not robust by default.
- Crowbar only supports unions when they are [tagged unions](tagged-unions.md) (or declared and used with the `fragile` keyword).
-
-C's syntax isn't perfect, but it's usually pretty good.
-However, sometimes it just sucks, and in those cases Crowbar makes changes.
-
-- C's variable declaration syntax is far from intuitive in nontrivial cases (function pointers, pointer-to-`const` vs `const`-pointer, etc).
- Crowbar uses [simplified type syntax](types.md) to keep types and variable names distinct.
-- `_Bool` is just `bool`, `_Complex` is just `complex` (why drag the preprocessor into it?)
-- Adding a `_` to numeric literals as a separator
-- All string literals, char literals, etc are UTF-8
-- Octal literals have a `0o` prefix (never `0O` because that looks nasty)
-
-## Additions
-
-### Anti-Footguns
-
-- C is generous with memory in ways that are unreliable by default.
- Crowbar adds [memory safety conventions](safety.md) to make correctness the default behavior.
-- C's conventions for error handling are unreliable by default.
- Crowbar adds [error propagation](errors.md) to make correctness the default behavior.
-
-### Trivial Room For Improvement
-
-- Binary literals, prefixed with `0b`/`0B`