If you go these days into a tool shop, you can see 20% of utter crap, 20% of good tools, and the rest is crap packed as good tools.

Unfortunately, there's no way telling what the crap is, until you try - price, brand, appearance that all is

Now the crap IS usable for its intended purpose, except that you have to learn how to use it, the extra care it requires, and you have to be prepared that it may fail anytime. It's the "cost of ownership" problem.

Note, that Ganssle among other suggestions calls for "restrictive dialect of the language". Well, other people may call it "best practices" or "coding standards" and it is used already for decades as a remedy for the crappines of C.

JW