"Democracy is the worst system of governance, except for all the other things we've tried" but s/Democracy/email/
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This is not unlike my opinions why C is still such a dominant and valuable programming language despite serious flaws.
Of course it's not going to die when every single murder attempt is based on a comical misunderstanding of the language's unique value.
<wonka>Oh, so you're going to kill C with a compiled language that has strong safety guarantees based on an opinionated type model?</wonka>
@MaddieM4@raphus.social what's, in your opinion, its unique value?
@aka_dude It allows you to program portably AND at a low level at the same time, and by "low level", I mean that direct hardware access is trivial and safety is out of scope.
Most attempts to murder C fail because they see that last point as a bug instead of a feature.
This is why I say "unique" value. Safety is a good thing for most languages to care about most of the time. The language I'm actively developing, Prone, is in that category - it's reference-counted. We don't need a lot of languages with the safety off... but we need *some*, because safety can be done a hundred thousand ways, and to have a lingua franca between them, we need lowest-common-denominator agnosticism.
Broke: "email is going to be around forever like a digital cockroach for legacy reasons."
Woke: "email is still around because every attempt to kill it was some tech oligarchy walled garden with too short an enshittification life cycle and no federation."
Bespoke: "email could die in a generation if there was an open, federated alternative that wasn't designed around allowing random people to initiate conversations with you, and we would all breathe a goddamn sigh of relief if it happened"