[mytec]

If you left it at the initial question this might have been an entirely different thread.

"There are already so many Unix like operating systems of all sizes written in C... If I were to go to such an effort, I would try another language...It is meanwhile more than clear that it can be done in C...so it would actually be more interesting to explore the suitability of other languages for such a task."

Based on your earlier remarks why not say knitters should use different material or needles to make it more interesting? Why do the same pattern over again when so many knitters have probably knit the very same pattern already.

Because the statements above miss the point of what hobby means to most people.

>> and apparently you can't answer the questions either

No one is required to. Not anyone on HN or the hobbyist in question.