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A comment on Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf] by nullValue on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:22PM (#22176569)
I respectfully disagree. I have a embedded multi-threaded 'C' program running in over 11k+ retail stores in the USA right now. It's been handling multiple client requests to a Sqlite DB since 2007 without any issues. This product has made my company a lot of revenue. The secret to using threads is all in the design. Don't share resources between threads (I only had one shared resource for 50+ threads guarded by a semaphore).

Cheers.

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Re:Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf] by pshc on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:49PM (#22177539)
That is a decent anecdote. Well, with respect, allow me to revise and qualify my read of @baggy_trough's comment:

It's perfectly fine to continue using an existing C codebase for a program, not exposed to the public internet, that's maintained by a focused group of maintainers. But on the other side of this spectrum, for large exposed projects like OpenSSL, Chromium, or even Linux, C/C++ has become risky.

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