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After acheiving a certain level of expertise, most people tinker in the languages they're most fluent with (if they want to focus on the project) or the ones th
by swatcoder 3y ago
After acheiving a certain level of expertise, most people tinker in the languages they're most fluent with (if they want to focus on the project) or the ones they're curious about (if they want to focus on the language).
It's a profound understatement to say that antirez has a certain level of expertise, and a certain fluency, in C.
- davidw 3y agoYes, he does. The next person who picks this up and does something with it might not, though. IMO fun stuff like this is often a good excuse to learn something new and different that might be better in some way, like safety.
- freecodyx 3y agoAgree in general, but as you can see this could’ve been done in other languages with less effort. In c you mostly need to reinvent the wheel
- latchkey 3y agoI started writing C over 20 years ago. That doesn't mean that I'd ever pick it for this.
- tcfhgj 3y agoWhy not, it's not like Telegram uses E2EE