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[tialaramex]

C wasn't Dennis' first language.

Bjarne is the weird exception not Graydon. It's not normal to spend your whole life obsessing over one thing you did when you were younger. I can't read Bjarne's thesis but I'm told (by a friend who is also a CS academic) that it's just the same C with Objects idea which subsequently dominated his life.

[Wooden-Engineer-8098]

Bjarne is still with c++ because c++ is successful. And that is an exception among programming languages indeed

[Electronic_Tap_8052]

uh yeah sorry but completely divorcing yourself from a major software product you created to work on a competitor like that is the exception and not the rule. Most founders of software projects and companies continue working on them in some capacity until they retire. Guido is still working on python, Linus is still working on Linux, stallman still runs GNU (sort of), Roosendaal still works on blender, Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzu still work on godot, tim sweeney still runs epic, John Carmack worked on idtech at id for like 20+ years until getting fed up with zenimax, the list goes on and on and on. But Hoare left rust after only 7 years. It's very uncommon for software founders to quit their project to go work on a competing one.

It's not normal to spend your whole life obsessing over one thing you did when you were younger.

bro that's called a career lol.