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You use C and C++ apps daily— many of which probably have poorer automated testing than you’d think. It’s not great, but it isn’t the world-ending catastrophe that you seem to think it is.


he is spot on, you know - this software is a contender for foundational infrastructure. The best foundational infrastructure software is like SQLITE - more tests than code, tiny and runs everywhere


And written in C. So, he is at best half spot on. I agree that I’d want to see better testing. I would disagree that C rules it out.




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