Well, I can tell it's a programmer and not an engineer who works at hardware levels. All the complaints are "1st world" or "high level" programmer/computer pro

Well, I can tell it's a programmer and not an engineer who works at hardware levels. All the complaints are "1st world" or "high level" programmer/computer problems. If you've ever designed hardware and had to bootstrap it up to a "high level" situation - then these are nonsense concerned when you are merely trying to get a new hardware design up and running. You can always bootstrap to a language that already has all these things. The author obviously has never done anything like that. Not based in any reality where C matters.