Comment by ndesaulniers
18 hours ago
I spent a bit of time implementing parts of a C runtime for the brief tenure I had maintaining LLVM's libc. I quickly came the realization that a lot of the interfaces that made it all the way to standardization were trash. How the language is standardized is still comical to me. I agree with TFA that C style strings are trash.
In this day and age, the value of C standard library is approaching zero. Is is basically an unfirm looping trajectory of CS thought left over 50 years. That amount of code can be recreated pretty quick today. So why bother. Unless it is a syscall or somehow specially treated by the compiler (memcpy etc), there is no special value in it.