I think your post highlights perfectly why I think we should talk about the roles of C and not C itself. The C you talk about seems to be a very different beast

I think your post highlights perfectly why I think we should talk about the roles of C and not C itself. The C you talk about seems to be a very different beast compared to the C people write and use when building shared libraries that are used across a wide variety of platforms. For example, the people writing OpenSSL would have very different concerns from the people you talk about.