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I sort of wonder if there's going to be a barrage of exploits held until end-of-life that's going to be released now. EDIT: I'm already aware that the system has been exploited to …

> Why use C11 over C99? C11 gives you noreturn and alignas. Alignas can be pretty useful for low-level development in particular. Just hope you don't need variable-length arrays be…

Open always wins, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it'll be qualitatively better, which is what your parent comment seems to hint at.

age only covers authenticated encryption. minisign/signify covers the signing part. Everything else is either not used in practice or needs to be shifted to a dedicated protocol.

Here's the fix to e-mail: Centralization. You can't curb abuse in a federated model. This is an issue that's been plaguing the fediverse as well. IRC networks, though not federated…

Upstream moving faster than downstream Linux distributions can possibly keep up with.

Indeed, C11 and C18 don't bring a lot. I'm glad that they don't because backwards compatibility and roughly predictable development of the language is important to me.