[st_goliath]

Given the tone and assumptions the article makes, and the things that are explicitly explained, this seems to be one of those articles where a novice learnt something new and then decided to write an article about it, despite not having fully grasped the concept yet.

As a result, the author has such strange, absolute positions, calling it a legacy that should be abolished (only tangentially knowing some actual use cases), or that strange quote about design principles.

Despite all the talk about security, the whole debacle that argc can be 0 (and argv[0] can be NULL), is completely left aside. This has caused actual security issues quite recently[1].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/882799/

[gwbas1c]

The security issues the author points out later in the article do have merit.

Unfortunately, the author shot their credibility in the foot by perseverating on use of argv[0]; instead of glossing over it and getting to the point.