C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

[Dave Jones]

On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 22:45:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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 obvious, _particularly_ when they're invested in the outdated.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.

My son broke the handle of a jug a few days ago and spent about 
10 minutes arguing with me about how it wasn't really broken you 
just had to hold it differently.

"C" you just need to hold it differently.