I only made it about 80% through because, yes it was a rant. I'm pretty sure the author knew what they were talking about. The issues discussed were those of so

I only made it about 80% through because, yes it was a rant. I'm pretty sure the author knew what they were talking about. The issues discussed were those of someone who knows how computers work with a great deal more depth than many (if not the vast majority) of developers. The point that programming languages are just syntactic sugar around machine code isn't really relevant here since, for better or for worse, C headers are the standard way to codify access to ABI's. A deep understanding may be fine if you aren't accessing many ABI's, but it doesn't scale well. Using C headers does scale well, but the author is pointing out there are many things about C that makes this difficult.