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Looks good but wish it was written in C.

• jjice 2y ago
  Any particular reason?
  • Spivak 2y ago
    C is the best language for an application that spends all its time handling untrusted user input.
    • kstrauser 2y ago
      I see what you did there.
• acedTrex 2y ago
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• kbaker 2y ago
  For anyone else wondering, it is written in Go.
• drewdevault 2y ago
  The original aerc prototype was written in C. It wasn't great. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc-legacy https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc-legacy
• anthk 2y ago
  Go it's ideal to replace old C/C++ based utilitarian software such as mail clients, music players and so on. For gaming and high performance needing tools such as the ffmpeg codecs and qemu, C/C++ have more sense there.