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by thumbuddy 1068 days ago
Sometimes I wonder if that's true long term. The amount of bugs, security issues, and code churn surrounding C code bases is pretty wild. If everybody and all their deployments has to recompile a C code base 100 times over the course of three years to get patches, fixes, etc it makes me wonder what the real cost of C is?

My intuition states that this isn't the case, but intuition can be wrong.

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Most people don't run Gentoo so binaries are only compiled once.