Comment by gpm
6 days ago
What an absurdly bad faith interpretation. I never said anything to even suggest abandoning old code.
As demonstrated by vulnerabilities like the one in the article, C (and its ecosystem) doesn't "work", so I'm glad to hear that you won't be sticking with that for new projects going forwards.
... Except you have already admitted that it has bupkus to do with C.
You said it was a lack of "modern tooling". Modern C toolchains vastly outstrip most, for modernity. C23 is three years old.
But no. I wont be breaking compatibility for everyone, just to chase a shiny nickel. That is burning the barnyard for fear of geese.
This is a total strawman. Blaming old tools for a problem is not a cry to never ever use old tools.
They want better choices going forward. You made up this constant rewrite crusade so you could have something to be mad at.
Also a few compiler updates don't make an ecosystem modern.
It's not a straw man. We were talking about git using a particular thing. They said particular thing was a dumb idea and git should change it. That's a rewrite.
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