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> I had a lot of opinions like this too when I was 17, but age and experience has disabused me of many of them.

Sure, I didn't say I agree with them, I barely remember when I was 17, it was that long ago.

I'm saying that young people that I meet are more interested in c so the 'in 20 years no-one knows c' is not exactly true.

We try Rust now and then; it's not worth it yet in my opinion for what we do. The tooling and libs we have for c are vast and like said, c people are really easy to get, Rust not so much.

I hope this changes, but for now it's just too much of a struggle to warrant it. And I was only responding to the fear of not having capable c devs in 20 years. There will be plenty.




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