Unfortunately, the author seems to have misconceptions about a variety of things. > projects with more than 10k LOC. Other comments have discussed this. Linux

Unfortunately, the author seems to have misconceptions about a variety of things. > projects with more than 10k LOC. Other comments have discussed this. Linux kernel: ~4million lines. Compilers, interpreters, and so on... all well above 10k LOC. While C is not the best language for such things, by no means is it unmanageable. > But when you try to do the modern funkiness of dynamic languages (lambda functions, map/reduce, type-independence, ...) All of the features can be used in much stronger type systems than C++ gives you. ML-family languages have all these features and are strictly type.d > Javascript Javascript's whacky semantics suck, that's for sure, but for a dynamic language that's par-for-course anyway. I don't really understand his argument about embedding. Why is that relevant? Java and C# are not embeddable either. ...So?