> So we switched from a path where all major desktop environments ... were adopting C++ to a surge in C programming, as FOSS adoption started to gain steam.
So you say FLOSS is responsible that the late 90s/early 2000s C++ hype slowly died off?
> trying to fix the security inconveniences caused by this manifesto.
And you believe those projects chose C, solely because some random GNU document suggested they do?
If that document didn't exist they would have chosen what? C++98? Java? Ada?
So you say FLOSS is responsible that the late 90s/early 2000s C++ hype slowly died off?
> trying to fix the security inconveniences caused by this manifesto.
And you believe those projects chose C, solely because some random GNU document suggested they do?
If that document didn't exist they would have chosen what? C++98? Java? Ada?