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by jeffdavis 3367 days ago
The problem is that the author listed specific reasons, which opened him up to specific challenges.

He should have just said: "curl is an established project. New languages are not being seriously considered for curl."

If you want to close down a conversation, it's counterproductive to make new dubious claims like "C is not the primary reason for our past vulnerabilities".

Note that closing down a conversation isn't bad. Sometimes they are annoying or distracting. I love rust but here was my comment when someone wanted to rewrite postgres in rust:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354768