Fear not, I too come from an embedded background. I appreciate the "you can pry C from my cold dead hands" culture in embedded. I understand that many of the arguments against C feel like "C isn't sexy enough". I understand that many have promised that Java, C#, C++98, etc are a better fit for embedded systems than C and failed to deliver.
I'm not saying that we should deprecate C because it's old or unsexy. I'm saying there are practical problems with the C ecosystem that are unlikely to work themselves out which makes packaging downstream software really, really hard. This is a bad fit for domains (like SaaS) where the pace of software development is quite rapid.
> so idk, maybe a fresh re-write of every classical cs problem every 10 years is better in practice
In this case we wouldn't even need to rewrite things if the maintainers of these software projects would opt into a sane package manager (there exist sane package managers for C, for example, Conan) but most maintainers of C projects are militantly opposed.
I'm not saying that we should deprecate C because it's old or unsexy. I'm saying there are practical problems with the C ecosystem that are unlikely to work themselves out which makes packaging downstream software really, really hard. This is a bad fit for domains (like SaaS) where the pace of software development is quite rapid.
> so idk, maybe a fresh re-write of every classical cs problem every 10 years is better in practice
In this case we wouldn't even need to rewrite things if the maintainers of these software projects would opt into a sane package manager (there exist sane package managers for C, for example, Conan) but most maintainers of C projects are militantly opposed.