Most of the real world uses C and C++, because of the vicious cycle he mentions on the post.
You don't need C's lack of safety everywhere for doing an OS. There were OS written in Mesa, Modula-2, Modula-3, Object Pascal, Oberon, Ada and many others.
C's strings and vectors are recipe for security exploits without any benefit for kernel programming. Or lack of type safety between compilation units.
It is a very good thing students learn C and C++ aren't the only way to write an OS. Sometimes the world seems to forget other languages have been used for the same purpose.
You don't need C's lack of safety everywhere for doing an OS. There were OS written in Mesa, Modula-2, Modula-3, Object Pascal, Oberon, Ada and many others.
C's strings and vectors are recipe for security exploits without any benefit for kernel programming. Or lack of type safety between compilation units.
It is a very good thing students learn C and C++ aren't the only way to write an OS. Sometimes the world seems to forget other languages have been used for the same purpose.