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first of all, no. plenty of OS are made in other languages. also, the big OS WERE written in C, and only remain so in order to avoid redoing millions of lines of code.
> and then a interface to them are given through wrappers in other languages
again this is only done because the OS is using an outdated language, so people are forced to work with it.
> C is still in the top five in the TIOBE index today
that doesnt matter, this does:
C is not relevant any more, not sure what world you are living in. it only has any relevance because it was the best option at the time decades ago, and so people are forced to use it when making syscalls. thats it.
> Not 1:1, but it's absolutely correlated
> The warranty thing is subtle, because open source software has developed an unwritten social contract that is different from what the license says.
No, it hasn't. Some entitled people expect paid software and support from a free product, and get confused and upset because they didn't bother to read the license.
> Authors who publish code are expected to take some responsibility for it, at minimum patching security issues, and reasonably guarding commit access to the repo.
Nope. License makes it extremely clear that no warranty is provided.
It very much is. Not 1:1, but it's absolutely correlated. I've made several purchases for things that I tried to pirate and couldn't find.
> int (*ap1)[10] = &arr;
var ap1 *[10]int = &arr1. build a userbase, free product
2. once userbase get big enough, any new account requires a monthly fee, maybe $1
3. keep raising the fee higher and higher, until you get to the point that the userbase is manageable.
no ads, simple.
you couldn't be more wrong. what happens when you lose the schema, or never had access to it in the first place? think from the point of view of reverse engineering
such an awful format, I wish people would stop using it