»Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C.«

In this post, the author shows that replacing C/C++ with safer languages is not an all-or-nothing task and suggests prioritizing systematically.

In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operating system Plan 9, and the language Go. He and Ritchie won the Turing Award. He now works at Google. He’ll be interviewed Brian Kernighan of “K&R” fame.