{"id":108898,"date":"2026-08-03T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=601aea26d7ab08c145496a9f295caee0"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:02:10","slug":"celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-release-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=108898","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/changelog.complete.org\/archives\/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-release-in-15-years-and-working-with-a-decades-old-c-codebase\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: That's cool to see it being maintained.  I haven't used Kermit in anger in several years, but it's one of those pieces of eternal infrastructure that you eventually need when dealing with primitive (due to small\/simple, old, prototype, or just weird) computers. \nI share the author's feelings about good C code bases, they have a strange beauty that fancier languages never quite have.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=49158474\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=108898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}