2. Name lookup and overload resolution is already so complex though! This will likely never be added because it's so core c++ and would break so much. imo, it also blurs the line between what's your interface vs what I've defined.

3. This is every junior c++ engineers suggestion. Having ABI breaks would probably kill c++, even though it would improve the language long term.

4. Again, you make solid points and I think a lot of the committee would agree with you. However, the committee's job is to adapt C++ in a backwards supporting way, not to disrupt it's users and API each new release.

There are definitely things to fix in c++ and every graduate engineer I've managed has had the same opinions of patching the standard, without considering the full picture.

I looked up the actual reason for its inception:

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    Rationale for the ANSI C Programming Language", Silicon Press 1990.

    4.11.2.4 The strncpy function
    strncpy was initially introduced into the C library to deal with fixed-length name fields in structures such as directory entries. Such fields are not used in the same way as strings: the trailing null is unnecessary for a maximum-length field, and setting trailing bytes for shorter names to null assures efficient field-wise comparisons. strncpy is not by origin a "bounded strcpy," and the Committee has preferred to recognize existing practice rather than alter the function to better suit it to such use.

Why the blog has a section on how it install it on the path is also very puzzling.

Except for the fact that this behaviour is surprising.

> you should be checking your input against the range that's valid. Your sample code simply doesn't do that, and that's why there's a bug.

Indeed, so why doesn't setTimeout internally do that?

This sounds like something which you have no evidence at all for claiming.

How is that related to this engineering post? I wish HN took action against people commenting wildy unrelated topics.

Also, all the studies you linked are about using it in therapy vs using it at a rave?

So you obviously have never used clip in bike pedals before. Why are you trying to argue this point if you know nothing about what you're talking about?