The problem is that the author listed specific reasons, which opened him up to specific challenges. He should have just said: "curl is an established project.

The problem is that the author listed specific reasons, which opened him up to specific challenges. He should have just said: "curl is an established project. New languages are not being seriously considered for curl." If you want to close down a conversation, it's counterproductive to make new dubious claims like "C is not the primary reason for our past vulnerabilities". Note that closing down a conversation isn't bad. Sometimes they are annoying or distracting. I love rust but here was my comment when someone wanted to rewrite postgres in rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354768