[viraptor]

I don't think this generalises that well. We're learning some general truths that should be known to many people with enough time. You can certainly criticise whole architecture and methodology based on those ideas. For some ideas it took a long time before they became something obvious - we may be at a time when the scales are slowly tipping.

For example imagine telling someone in 2000 that they should be running an automated continuous integration pipeline rather than purely manual testing. Now it's a norm. Then, we were still discussing whether Extreme Programming was a waste of time. But we also didn't have the tools to support the CI properly.

Memory safe compiled languages seem to me like the same thing. We had things like Cyclone, OOC, and other experiments which barely anyone knew. Now we have Rust which is still hard to use, but it's gaining ground. In a decade, I hope to be pointing out to this post when someone complains that you can't criticize an entire methodology. "Remember when people said the same thing about enforced memory safety?"

Curl will not be rewritten of course. But I'm happy people push this idea. The next curl will not be written in C.