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That's an ongoing discussion in the Postgres community [0], primarily because Postgres is 100% written in C. As for the future, I don't know. Not many companie
by fforflo 2y ago
That's an ongoing discussion in the Postgres community [0], primarily because Postgres is 100% written in C.
As for the future, I don't know. Not many companies can maintain full forks. I've noticed, however, from my professional experience that businesses are willing to hire freelancers to code specific things. (e.g., I've had a few Postgres gigs to write custom Postgres extensions. 50% C and 50% SQL/PgSQL).
But yeah, I guess lots of C projects will become like COBOL ones.
0: https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/10/10/postgres-the-next-generation-investing-in-the-next-generation-of-committers/ https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/10/10/postgres-the-next-g...