Re: on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2026 22:45:06 +0200
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From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam James <[email protected]>, Joseph Myers <[email protected]>, 
	[email protected], Keith Bostic <[email protected]>, 
	Mark Harris <[email protected]>, Nevin Liber <[email protected]>, 
	JeanHeyd Meneide <[email protected]>, Christopher Bazley <[email protected]>, 
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]>, Iker Pedrosa <[email protected]>, 
	"Evgeny Grin (Karlson2k)" <[email protected]>, Kees Cook <[email protected]>, bug-gnulib-mXXj517/[email protected], 
	libc-alpha-9JcytcrH/[email protected], Douglas McIlroy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform
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> Date: 2026-08-01 22:42:15+0200
> From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
>
[...]
> 	$ git log --pretty=3Dreference -p -- SPONSORS=20
> 	6d9ae347cfac (SPONSORS: Two sponsors didn't renew this year, 2025-10-29)
>=20
> 	diff --git a/SPONSORS b/SPONSORS
> 	index 440fcca8b9ed..4b2f2e9011b8 100644
> 	--- a/SPONSORS
> 	+++ b/SPONSORS
> 	@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
> 	-Adfinis              <https://adfinis.com/>
> 	 Google               <https://opensource.google/>
> 	 Hudson River Trading <https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/>
> 	 Meta                 <https://www.meta.com/>
> 	-Red Hat              <https://www.redhat.com/>

FWIW, the reason for those two that dropped, IMO, is that Adfinis is
a small company that couldn't afford it, and Red Hat probably did to
have more cash to burn in the AI oven.


Cheers,
Alex

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