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points by oguz-ismail2 3 days ago | 0 comments
What exactly do you mean "push"? What do you think is going to make musl developers switch languages?
[–] slopinthebag 3 days ago
it's unbelievable to me that there isn't a larger movement of developers to move away from c towards better & safer languages. look at how much pushback the rust4linux folks get, primarily from c developers who are simply afraid of change. imagine engineers not adopting safer building practices because "they prefer the old way"....it's disgusting honestly.

what will it take to move away from c? older devs retiring. Planck said that "science advances one funeral at a time" and i fear it will be the same for software.

[–] hollowonepl 2 days ago
Moving away from C in any POSIX system is in fact stop being POSIX system as POSIX and linux being unix like system is built on standard that is defined as C library specification.

Rewriting it to Rust is fine attempt, just hard to call it is unix/posix anymore. It may not matter but semantically true.

[–] bigbadfeline 3 days ago
> what will it take to move away from c? older devs retiring.

I'll take forking and porting, thank goodness for LLMs.