If it works it works. Very few of my problems with shells can be blamed on C. (Maybe two in total?)
The oldest commit is from 2013. Rust hadn't hit 1.0 yet, Go only barely.
The oldest commit is from 2013. Rust hadn't hit 1.0 yet, Go only barely.
First and very partial implementation - JavaScript. It was a prototype which I knew I will be throwing away... and I did.
Second attempt, also very partial - Lisp. I used SBCL. Skipping the details here but the result was as follows: got stuck with two different unrelated issues. I did not know would I be stuck with additional issues even if I somehow solve these two.
Third attempt - found a language in which I will never be stuck unable to solve something. C. Also, looked around: bash, Python, Ruby - they are all C. At the time I thought I might be "borrowing" some code from. It didn't happen. I did look though.
Edit: unexpectedly a huge chunk of work, which is garbage collection, was already done for me. C has garbage collection! It is a library - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector