[collinfunk]

> While half of the language design of C is questionable and outright dangerous, making its functions locale-sensitive by all popular OSes was an avoidable mistake. Yet everybody did that. Just the existence of this behavior is a reason I would like to get rid of anything GNU-based in the systems I develop today.

POSIX requires that many functions account for the current locale. I'm not sure why you are blaming GNU for this.

[keyle]

C wasn't designed to be running facebook, it was designed to not have to write assembly.

[jen20]

At a time when many machines did not have as many bytes of memory as there are Unicode code points.

[immibis]

I'm not sure why you are blaming POSIX! The role of POSIX is to write down what is already common practice in almost all POSIX-like systems. It doesn't usually specify new behaviour.

[GTP]

I always assumed it was the other way around: a system follows POSIX to be POSIX-compliant.

[immibis]

It's both.

There are POSIX-specific standards (like pthreads) but they come about after other people invent threads and don't agree on an API.