• is the fact that people can with effort and error figure out how to do something a reason not to make it easier for them to do?

    I mean

    you can in theory write multi-threaded bug-free C code – just read the docs and the specs and the source of your libs and never ever do something that seems to work but is subtly fatally incorrect

    and yet we still have golang and rust and many other options to do things more safely and easily

    if someone wants to use Linux but doesn’t want to memorize the Hundred Mandatory Commands and Thousand Flags lest they accidentally cat > /dev/sda, why shouldn’t there be a system for them?