Without reading the comments here, I read the blog entry first. After I finished I was puzzled, "what is the author trying to communicate to the reader here?"

Without reading the comments here, I read the blog entry first. After I finished I was puzzled, "what is the author trying to communicate to the reader here?" As near as I can determine, enough people weren't using the author's program/utility because it was written in a language that hasn't been blessed by the crowd? It is hinted at that there might be issues involving memory consumption. The author does not write lessons learned or share statistics of user uptake after the re-write. No new functionality was gained, presumably this exercise was done as practice reps because the author could do it and had time. No argument was made that the author has seen the light and now only C from this point on.