For me, this is the gist of the article: >> But NTPsec is a lot smaller and cleaner now at 62KLOC of C (that’s just 27% of the original size). It’s been brough

For me, this is the gist of the article: >> But NTPsec is a lot smaller and cleaner now at 62KLOC of C (that’s just 27% of the original size). It’s been brought up to pretty tight C99/ANSI standards conformance, and the few remaining platform dependencies are either already well isolated or can easily be made so. Then they have a section about future plans and a short comparison of two possible languages. I'm surprised that you're surprised Go is virtually non-existent in this thread. Hackernews comment sections are strictly for endlessly typing about Rust's memory safety features to seemingly no end. You will find this behavior under any article that mentions C or C++. At this point I don't care about downvotes because the whole finding-valuable-comments-to-learn-from experience I've had in the past is getting harder and harder to attain to. So instead of bitching about that, I will just go upvote someone who is downvoted.