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Re:Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension by vmchale on Sunday September 09, 2018 @11:56PM (#17949283)
> As it turns out, their strategy of extending an existing language to make it safer worked great, while brand new languages that are safer than Typescript are now miles behind it in terms of adoption

Did it? Adoption seems to me to be a pretty silly metric given all the politics of language choice.

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Re:Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension by pjmlp on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:08PM (#17953702)
Given that the goal is getting C developers to adopt best practices, adoption is the most relevant metric here.
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