alt Hacker NewsSure, that makes sense. The point I’m making is just that from an engineering perspective, that also implies that there is no longer any reason for that software you’re running to be written in C at all.
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sfpotter • last Sunday at 3:26 PM
Sure there is. Making tough choices between alternatives based on where to allocate a limited amount of manpower is an engineering choice. Choosing to use Fil-C to recompile existing (established, stabilized, functional...) software rather than rewrite it is an engineering choice.
From an engineering perspective, the software is already written in C, and you're weighing the tradeoffs between rewriting it and recompiling it.