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> Thus neither Go or Rust was an option at the time. Don’t tell me it should have been written in OCaml, Haskell, Java, ADA, whatever. All of those memory safe languages were either unfit for such a low level software or far too confidential to be a good pick.

Which of these are unfit or confidential? This is an extremely weak argument. It's basically saying that none of the languages besides Rust and/or Go are unfit for system-level software.

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There's also the fact that Guix is based on Shepherd (formerly dmd), an init system written in motherfucking Scheme. There is nothing inherently low level about init; if your language can talk POSIX, it can be used in that purpose.

What the hell does confidential even mean in this context?

(Also it is of course written Ada)

I suspect the author meant "controversial", since "confidential" makes zero sense.

the author meant "not widely used" and assumed french~=english

"confidentiel" can be used in french to denote something that isn't necessarily secretive/restricted but yet only known by a select few.

I assume the author meant "esoteric".

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