I like giner bill, but: - this is experienced/smart person forgetting about selection bias - yea null ptr errors are easy when you've had years to learn to avo

I like giner bill, but: - this is experienced/smart person forgetting about selection bias - yea null ptr errors are easy when you've had years to learn to avoid them. - systems programmers are just as bad as web devs in forgetting that that their style of programming doesn't always generalize across multiple domains. - I don't think the article puts enough emphasis on how big of a difference tooling makes; compilers are smart enough now to tip off about lots of errors that manifested as null pointer errors - like forgetting to initialize a variable, that's just a lint error now. - I also don't understand the obsession with being so strongly tied to C. Like I understand carbon, because that's a direct replacement that google is working on and because c++ has the opposite problem of having too much such that there's a really great language somewhere in the mess, but people aren't seriously going to jump from c to odin. People that like c, use c, are going to stay with c. People that try new languages want something at least a little bit better. The outcome could be the same, but it should be because a feature is good and not as a compromise in the hopes that it'll lure people over.