C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

[Walter Bright]

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 _particularly_ when they're invested in the outdated.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.