tl;dr:"When I was working on this stuff we had too naive of an understanding of how pointers should work. Others have done a lot of great work to expand this understanding, and now the flaws are all the more glaring." This article is broken up into 3 parts: conceptual background, problems with the current design, and proposed solutions.
tl;dr:"My problem is that C was elevated to a role of prestige and power, its reign so absolute and eternal that it has completely distorted the way we speak to each other. Rust and Swift cannot simply speak their native and comfortable tongues..."