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Comment by matheusmoreira | Hacker News Reader

We simply don't appreciate other people imposing their will on us. We should be able to start a C project in 2023 without shame if we want to. Simply because we like C and don't like Rust. There's literally no need to justify it any further. We are free to do what we want.

If in doubt, remember: the software is distributed in the hopes it will be useful but with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

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There's a substantial difference between a hobbyist writing a random project in C, and Google writing an image processing implementation, and then including it in Chrome and Android.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. You can start your project in C and release it on an AS IS basis, and we can make fun of you for it, object to its use in professional contexts, and so on.

> we can make fun of you for it

Don't complain about the downvotes or the well-deserved replies then.

> object to its use in professional contexts

Liability limitation is standard legal boilerplate in literally every free software and open source license. No doubt it's also present in the terms of service documents which nobody reads before accepting. If you're gonna object to using software based on that, you might find you'll have to rewrite all of it or pay top dollar for service level agreements.

What's the mechanism for imposing their will?

And how is the limitation of LEGAL liability relevant in the realm of moral one (shame etc)

> And how is the limitation of LEGAL liability relevant

It sure as hell matters when a guy comes here posting about how C programmers need to be sued for negligence. Can you imagine some asshole suing you because you started a project on GitHub but didn't use one of the approved languages?

Oh, sorry, the original comment was flagged, so didn't see the legal threat, so only made the connection between statements in your comment

No worries, in a couple of years you will be able to get goverment clearance for C, in similar way companies have to when dealing with hazardous substances.

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