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> I enjoy writing C (more than C++); I do not find it awful. If you cannot accept that, then there is nothing I can say to change your mind. What I don't understand is this atavistic obsession that "everyone must migrate to rust now"…

Nobody is saying this!

In the original tweet, Mark Russinovich said he thinks C and C++ should be deprecated. I believe if you asked him to elaborate on this, he would say he believes we should stop using them when possible. Not "must". "Should". And further, I suspect he'd clarify that he is imploring this of the industry as a whole, and not at the scale of individual developers.

People still write asm, and nobody is coming for their heads. We need people like that! And we will need people who are skilled in C for the far foreseeable future. But the time has come where there exist alternatives to C and C++ which are superior for a very large bulk of their remaining use-cases. He's not scolding individual engineers who choose to continue writing code in a language he enjoys. He's calling for the industry as a whole to recognize this new reality and move forward with the times.

[Tozen]

Part of the issue though can be perceived psychological pressure, that can border on being coercive or even come off as intimidation. Kind of like all the "cool kids" are using X, and if you are not, then something must be wrong with you. And while Mark is probably not trying to purposefully create that kind of environment, remember there are powerful corporate interests involved, that probably wouldn't mind some intimidation or unnecessary peer pressure to promote their agenda.