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A comment on Git's list of banned C functions. Parent comment

Re:Git's list of banned C functions by detaro on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:44PM (#26348834)
Because individual libraries choosing to change quickly is comparable to language stability how? The relevant comparison would be "run a 3y old react app (or a 20 year old website using JS) in a modern browser or interpreter"
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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by _the_inflator on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:56PM (#26348974)
Yes, and it would still run fine I guess. I think only eval() changed over time. APIs and so on are still the same except for some Netscape stuff.
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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by IgorPartola on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:06PM (#26350386)
Insofar as stdlib for C is a library, I think it’s not the worst comparison.
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