On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 22:45:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/23/2018 5:39 AM, Joakim wrote:
In my experience, people never learn, even from the blatantly
obvious, _particularly_ when they're invested in the outdated.
What inevitably happens is the new tech gets good enough to
put them out of business, then they finally pick it up or
retire. Until most system software is written in
D/Go/Rust/Swift/Zig/etc., they will keep mouthing platitudes
about how C is here to stay.
I've predicted before that what will kill C is managers and
customers requiring memory safety because unsafeness costs them
millions. The "just hire better programmers" will never work.
My son broke the handle of a jug a few days ago and spent about
10 minutes arguing with me about how it wasn't really broken you
just had to hold it differently.
"C" you just need to hold it differently.
