notrly1337

In prison I had no phone for the first year. Then smuggled one illegally. Not joking.

This. Aside from identifying specs and implementing them correctly.

The development toolchain becomes inherently slow and things like CI/CD are often brittle and not implemented until their returns have severely diminished.

I believe he means there's a big commitment to get somebody going into a project. To create value, engineers need to be involved in many aspects of the product, which takes time for both parties, which is paid by the employer.

For me, because of the performance (machine code) and interoperability (can link and build shared libraries and static objects) of C at no additional cost. Also, I find it future-proof because it does all what C does, but better and look how long has C been used, even for greenfield projects.

I'm in prison. not even joking