Yes. It’s past time to treat some software maintenance work as infrastructure (in the “roads and water mains” sense of the word)

Yeah, the boring, but important work. Money would help there.

Funding bodies should consider spending money on boring maintenance and reimplementation of critical infrastructure in languages safer than C (e.g. Rust, but there are other interesting alternatives). We would avoid many future fiascos.

Reimplementation in rust sounds like you are trying to take much needs critical infrastrcture money and spend it on a fun project with small real world benefits.

Boring things like documentation and security patches would go further.

Google disagrees. They might know something you don't.

> Funding bodies should consider spending money on boring maintenance and reimplementation of critical infrastructure in languages safer than C (e.g. Rust, but there are other interesting alternatives).

And here's where it all breaks down - the most vocal proponents of how the money should be used would be those who want to see a particular tech stack survive/grow.

The way it is right now, being far from ideal, is better than having the loudest activists picking the winners.

So true.

The NTP project is symptomatic imo.

So important and totally ignored until recently.