> 16k lines of obscure C, riddled with pointer magic and arcane memory manipulations? No thanks! I think this line sells it short: It's battle-tested code. Li

> 16k lines of obscure C, riddled with pointer magic and arcane memory manipulations? No thanks! I think this line sells it short: It's battle-tested code. Like SQLite, forget about the language used to implement it; the fact that it runs on multiple architectures, used by multiple products, from multiple different programming languages, deployed to multiple platforms ... means that I have more confidence in the software than in a new project made in a safe language.