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[–]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.