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Re:The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don'... by detaro on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:27AM (#18469314)
I can name quite a few people who'd love to work on this stuff, but the companies that pay them rather would they make yet another chat app or move buttons on a shopping site around. Large movements like this are hard to do on the side, especially since replacing existing software piece-by-piece is often a harder proposition than doing a full replace.
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Re:The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don'... by mamcx on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:54AM (#18469501)
Is interesting, because maybe budget a 10% of time doing this will yield a lot of progress. Also, taking in consideration than certains tools (programming languages, OS APIs, shells, etc) have a large surface area of impact and many developers actually not care if the tools is made on C/C++, care that solve a certain problem. (Of course, this demand that the c-call conventions stay because that wire A LOT, but that is small and contained).
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