[ChiefOBrien]

Tell me how much of the system libraries are written in C or C++, and how much of them are being written in newer languages.

C is the default choice because of its ABI, and the tooling around it is made for using shared libraries.

What can you say about modern languages? Each of the languages are designed to work in a silo and not much cooperation for let's say, system plumbing. Their own package manager makes it easy to pull in code, and only make code for that language only. You can't just create a package that works as a shared library for other programs without mushing around C FFI. They make it hard by default, which creates resistance in developers to make a piece of code usable by others other than their own language. This trend is pretty alarming, especially when hidden and manipulative language fanboyism is showing its ugly head everywhere.

[CRConrad]

You severely misspelled "Thanks for the correction; sorry, I totally missed that".

HTH!

[ChiefOBrien]

You should explain what's wrong with the argument instead of being a passive agressive asshole. It was a continuation of why it happens nowadays that people swing to static linking and then posts like this get shamelessly upvoted.

[CRConrad]

OK, if being an active aggressive asshole is better (which judging from your comment certainly seems to be your opinion): You made a stupid comment. It was pointed out to you that your "big counter-argument to what Linus wrote" was actually exactly what he had written. In stead of graciously acknowledging, or admitting by even so much as a hint, that you were wrong (which was so obvious that one would have to be a total blithering idiot not to get it), you went off gibbering about some other tangent. That makes you the primary passive-aggressive asshole here. Now you've graduated to active-aggressive assholery, which makes you just simply an asshole.

There, clear enough this time?