[uecker]

I don't put too much wait on the self-reporting by Microsoft or Google. I agree though that the strategy to write safe bits and abstractions is good. What I know not to be true is the idea that similar strategies would not work also in C.

[vlovich123]

> What I know not to be true is the idea that similar strategies would not work also in C.

Is your argument that developers at MS and Google haven’t been trying to employ these strategies for existing C codebases? It’s a bold position to take and one I’d say devoid of evidence; all the evidence suggests it’s really hard to reason about ownership in complex systems and abstractions only help you do so error free up to a very limited point.

[uecker]

I know for sure that Microsoft does not, because they are not interested in C (and there compiler does not even fully support recent standards) and I assume the same thing about Google. I general, I do not think they write much C in the first place. I also think their use cases and priorities are different from others.