The article started it. The title's premise rapidly changes into "We must all speak C, and therefore C is not just a programming language anymore" (my italics),

The article started it. The title's premise rapidly changes into "We must all speak C, and therefore C is not just a programming language anymore" (my italics), and is then abandoned, and the rest is complaining about ABIs. And it's full of memes. But the last few sentences try to reach back to the premise: > But it’s not, it’s a protocol. A bad protocol certainly, but the protocol we have to use nonetheless! > Sorry C, you conquered the world, maybe you don’t get to have nice things anymore. > You don’t see England trying to improve itself, do you? So, the complaint is that C is popular. Fair enough, I too reflexively hate popular things, but this bad habit hasn't turned me against C, yet. And then "maybe you don't get to have nice things any more" is a distorted Simpsons quote, and what's being implied here? That whatever is the lingua franca for interfaces should be taken away by ... the ABI police ... and replaced by an endless series of alternatives, each of which is itself also soon removed for having become too gnarly? I don't understand the closing sentence at all. England? What? Something to do with the English language presumably. I am fond of that kludgy language, too. Should we all get aboard a bandwagon to replace it with a highly rational conlang?