It's frustrating that the way Twitter hides tweets causes the archive to lose information. That thread is actually really interesting, but it's missing a whole bunch of tweets!

https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/1492640056523116544

Graydon talks about how companies aren't willing to fund risky work, and that Rust would have never been a thing if he hadn't invested massive amounts of personal time into it.

  My limited experience at large companies suggests the engineer has to basically have a working prototype developed off the clock before anyone listens. And this matches what I know about corporate R&D mostly following public investment in government & academic speculative work.

I know were you are comming from, but it was very much not the only thing. The elegant model of C pointers to model memory and CPUs are definitely good aspects of C as well as its speed, transparency and overall simplicitity.

Trying to claim that Dennis Richie's design is just bad as you constantly do in any thread mentioning C is just completely missing the point and couldn't be more wrong. One thing is pointing out problems of C and another very different is saying that the only thing going for C is UNIX.

Ah, yes.

I assumed that C and Unix had "won" vor many decades already.