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On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 22:01:22 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> No bounds checking of arrays.

Huh? Whatever gave you that impression?

> Well, if Rust created for huge projects, why these macros? I 
> fear that macros are simply not needed in C-family languages.
> The macros help in D? Write unbearable code? :D

They're a lot cleaner than C's macros. AFAIK, Rust's writef() 
equivalent is implemented with them.