> The ecosystem thing can be a bigger deal, but again it really depends on the problem domain. Yes, absolutely - and of course C isn't immune to ecosystem prob

> The ecosystem thing can be a bigger deal, but again it really depends on the problem domain. Yes, absolutely - and of course C isn't immune to ecosystem problems, either. I remember the pain of working with GNU autotools back in the mid 2000s - in fact it's probably that experience (plus trying to use bleeding-edge tools written in Python!) that left me so cautious about external dependencies today.