> Frankly getting your knickers in a knot is emotional - the people using C are doing so for pragmatic reasons, not emotion.
I think a lot of us using C would like to move away, but for whatever reason can’t. One example is that we hotpatch our binaries, but that sort of infrastructure doesn’t exist for Rust.
Beyond tooling issues, that certainly can be fixed, it’s also non trivial to move a large codebase to a safer language. Maybe incremental use of languages like Rust is still better?
I think a lot of us using C would like to move away, but for whatever reason can’t. One example is that we hotpatch our binaries, but that sort of infrastructure doesn’t exist for Rust.
Beyond tooling issues, that certainly can be fixed, it’s also non trivial to move a large codebase to a safer language. Maybe incremental use of languages like Rust is still better?