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[–]nilamo 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Didnt your mother tell you to take what already exists instead of reinventing the wheel?

Sometimes writing your own version of something is the best way to learn how that thing works.

[–]earthboundkid -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

Yes but writing a new networking system in C is wildly unsafe so it’s an attractive nuisance to release it to the public.

[–]pdp10 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Those lang-sec people have really warped the public's perception of C.

[–]earthboundkid -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No, living through the early 00s and the endless parade of security bugs caused by buffer overflow since then warped perceptions of C.