• Kissaki
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    2 days ago

    those who’ve coded C for twenty years might not understand the issue

    or the opposite because they have that experience

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      2 days ago

      Yeah that’s definitely true, but also the people who have been doing it for 20 years have a huge amount of knowledge and experience invested in dealing with memory unsafety. Lots of people don’t want that investment to be “wasted”, so they try to maintain the status quo, even if it is worse for them.