> People's undergrad C course is a terrible basis on which to evaluate what C is today. The reason C is associated with a lack of security is that almost all so

> People's undergrad C course is a terrible basis on which to evaluate what C is today. The reason C is associated with a lack of security is that almost all software is written in C, written in a time when either the internet didnt exist or didnt imply an adversarial local environment. The problem is - undergrad C is about the lowest common denominator that all tooling understands and that all people understand. Of course you're probably not going to have to go as low as C89 like sqlite or, until 2022, the Linux kernel [1], but still, the long support cycles of many distributions make it challenging to move standards upgrades forward. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-prepares-to-move-the-linux-kernel-to-modern-c/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-prepares-to-mov...