Comment by thayne

The things complained about in the article are not a minimal reflection of how computers work.

Take the "wobbly types" for example. It would have been more "minimal" to have types tied directly to their sizes instead of having short, int, long, etc.

There isn't any reason that compilers on the same platform have to disagree on the layout of the same basic type, but they do.

The complaints about parsing header files could potentially be solved by an IDL that could compile to c header files and ffi definitions for other languages. It could even be a subset of c that is easier to parse. But nothing like that has ever caught on.