Amusing that someone disagrees with you on appraisal and your first reaction is to accuse of a call for rulebreaking. There's no vote going on here. Whatever it was is flagged now. If you want to restate your opinion at least add to the conversation.
Interestingly enough, my comment was flagged with just -1 of score point.
This kind of rhetoric effectively shuts down discussion as long as it does not adhere to some pre-approved narrative.
What is said is:
> Shortsighted discussion.
> C’s integers being wobbly-sized is the reason we have C compilers for pretty much every conceivable cpu architecture and we only have rust/swift/other compilers for a handful of carefully picked architecture.
I'll leave out the "controversial" (?) part (suggesting some ways to deal with other points of view, no racial slurs nor cussing involved).
Anyway: there are entire industries where C-as-a-protocol is fine enough (and actually appreciated, even though the author doesn't like it).
And then again... Some other people commented that "in 2024, only a handful of CPU architectures really matter anymore." which is even more shortsighted.
There are entire industries that do not use X86 or ARM, let alone RISC-V. There are many use-cases for MIPS, weird/other architectures (PowerPC, 8051, m68k-derivatives, pic-micro)... I had a relative that used to work on control software for space stuff, the CPUs used there are even older and definitely not x86/x86-64, arm or risc-v).
So yeah, complaining that the C language does not fit your own very specific use case is shortsighted (and frankly, I'm putting this very politely).
We should all remember that the world does not revolve around us and around our own use case.
This can vanish from hackernews for all I care and I wouldn't miss it.
And if you really feel strongly about something, getting your comment flagged and killed is a curious way to go about expressing it.