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>Managers and product leaders
yeah, thats marketing
im not trying to be insulting here
its just that depending on the field they have more less or even zero say on the technical aspect of things
thats why i challenge the idea of inertia in the context of c
its not a matter of inertia
its that there isnt a better offer for many applications
personally im very good at interfacing so i could deal with an arbitrarily sized project in pure C
but even considering a heterogenous workforce, c has its raison d'etre even in tyotl 2025 x86-64 applications
namely: libs for lack of a better umbrella term
in my opinion the major usecase for C is whenever you need 95% of performance for 5% of the effort
this implies unsafe in its rust equivalent for most cases
and means the code can easily be contained and kept correct

kek, im focused on everything BUT linux
i dont have an opinion on the matter beyond a vague expectation that the project will be forked into several exemplaries once linus steps down
i expect at least one of them being programmed in C
because of the already existing maintainers
because of the cult status of c
but also because c stands on its own merit so new maintainers will follow